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.
HEDY LAMARRI’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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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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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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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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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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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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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
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Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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