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.
HEDY LAMARRI’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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
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Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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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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Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
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All 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.
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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’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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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
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