Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

I still look good, though. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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

'Reedlike, that's what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn't lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante ... She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a firm grip on your name before she will allow herself to say a word.' ~ Richard Rhodes

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

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

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way. ~ Lena Horne

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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? ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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

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

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

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

I was madly in love with life. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

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. ~ Hedy Lamarr

Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident. ~ Phil LaMarr

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps. ~ Phil LaMarr

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse. ~ Phil LaMarr

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school. ~ Phil LaMarr

Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation. ~ LaMarr Woodley

Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads. ~ Phil LaMarr

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard. ~ LaMarr Woodley

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well. ~ LaMarr Woodley

Caroline made a steamed fig pudding with brandy hard sauce. Hedy and Jacob brought a platter of dense, moist gingerbread squares studded with chunks of candied ginger and frosted with a lemon cream cheese icing. John and Marie brought a flourless chocolate souffle cake filled with chocolate mousse, glazed with chocolate ganache and decorated with white chocolate swirls. Jag and Nageena brought a really interesting dessert called halwa that is made with carrots. And I brought Gemma's shortbread. ~ Stacey Ballis

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music. ~ LaMarr Woodley

I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it. ~ LaMarr Woodley

On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout. ~ LaMarr Woodley

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid. ~ Phil LaMarr