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.
HEDY LAMARRMen 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
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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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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 public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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 often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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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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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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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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.
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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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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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