Words matter. These are the best Hedy Lamarr Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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.
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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.
I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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.
Perhaps 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.
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.
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.
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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.
I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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.
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.
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.
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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.
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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.
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.
I 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.