I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
HEDY LAMARRThe public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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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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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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.
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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 am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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