I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
HEDY LAMARRI’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
HEDY LAMARRCompromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
HEDY LAMARRIt is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
HEDY LAMARRI enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
HEDY LAMARRI must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
HEDY LAMARRI 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.
HEDY LAMARRA good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
HEDY LAMARRPerhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
HEDY LAMARRI 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.
HEDY LAMARRAll 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.
HEDY LAMARRI 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 LAMARRI don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
HEDY LAMARRMany people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
HEDY LAMARRI 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.
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.
HEDY LAMARRI’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 LAMARR