Hedy Lamarr Quotes
"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
(Related: Being, Office)
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Life)
"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Politics, Women, Business, America, Europe, Succeed)
"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
(Related: Imagination, Hope)
"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
(Related: Love, People, Favorite, Name, Talking)
"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
(Related: Travel, People, Flying, Want)
"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Enemy)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Affection)
"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Complaints, Divorce, Lawyers)
"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
(Related: Father, Fire)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Hope, Favorite, Promise)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Care, Clothes)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Mother, Father, Ecstasy)
"I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Life)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Life, Men, Home, Work, Bed, Eating, Kids, Kissing, Routine)
"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
(Related: Popular, Voice)
"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Hair, Jewels)
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Sex, Intimacy, Man)
"To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Poverty, Taste, World)
"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Public)
"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
(Related: Marriage, Women, Difference, State, Theory, Want)
"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
(Related: Marriage, Time, Ceremony, Divorce)
"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
(Related: Divorce, Hollywood, Pretty, Running)
"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
(Related: Marriage, Women, Independence, Intimacy, Needs, Want)
"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
(Related: Mother, Girls, Miracles, Ugly)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Children, Parents, Wrong)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Men, Time, Man)
"Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Water)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Time)
"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
(Related: Success, Actor, Hollywood, Leading, Man, Order, Press, Sleep)
"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
- 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
"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
(Related: Money, People)
"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
(Related: Hair, Man, Wind)
"Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Age, Confidence)
"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Compromise, Magic, Tolerance, Words, Years)
"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
(Related: Father, Man)
"Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
- 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
(Related: Citizenship, Experts)
"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Time, Confidence, Emotions, Freedom)
"American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Money, Men, American)
"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Husbands)
"All creative people want to do the unexpected."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Want)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Hair, Needs, Woman)
"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Friend, Company, Painting)
"Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake."
- 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
(Related: Courtesy, Gold, Key, Man, Visit)
"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
(Related: Men, Husband, Man)
"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
(Related: Money, People, Job, Will)
"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
(Related: Boredom, Hollywood, Problems, Trouble)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Actors, Choices, Famous, Talk)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Sports, Fight, Man, Want, Wrestling)
"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
(Related: Kiss, Nothing)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Life, Friends)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Men, Women, Competition, Ugly, Vice)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Time, Funerals, Memories)
"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
(Related: Love, Men, Attention)
"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."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Blame, Guilt, Husbands, Unhappiness)
"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
(Related: Death, Fear, Order)
"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
(Related: Life, Death, Destiny, Earth, Safety)
"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Boredom)
"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
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Worth)