Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
HEDY LAMARRI find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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 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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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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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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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My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
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