Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
HEDY LAMARRAll creative people want to do the unexpected.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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 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 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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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 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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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 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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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 win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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