Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
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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.
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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
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Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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