I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
HEDY LAMARRI must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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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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Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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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 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 win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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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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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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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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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 think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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