I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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’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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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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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 am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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If 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.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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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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