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.
HEDY LAMARRIf I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
-
-
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
HEDY LAMARR -
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
HEDY LAMARR -
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
HEDY LAMARR -
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
HEDY LAMARR -
I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
HEDY LAMARR -
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
HEDY LAMARR -
The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
HEDY LAMARR -
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
HEDY LAMARR -
It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
HEDY LAMARR -
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
HEDY LAMARR -
I 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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR