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.
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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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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
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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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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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