Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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.

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.

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

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

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

I was madly in love with life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

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

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

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.

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

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

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.

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.

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.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

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.

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.