Hedy Lamarr's Quotes

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

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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.

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.

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.

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