Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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


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 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.

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


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 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.


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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

Hedy Lamarr