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 LAMARRMy 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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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.
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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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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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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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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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