Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
HEDY LAMARRAll a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
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