Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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.

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.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

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.

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 would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

I still look good, though.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.

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

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

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

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.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.