Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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.

I still look good, though.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

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 enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

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.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me ... and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude ... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

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.

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.

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

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 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.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more ... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

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'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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.

Men are most virile and 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.

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 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 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.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

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.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

I was madly in love with life.

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'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

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.

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.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

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.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

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.

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.

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.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

All 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.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

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.

A man does not try to find out what is inside.
He does not try to scratch the surface.
If he did he might find something much more beautiful than the shape of a nose or the color of an eye.