Hedy Lamarr Quotes (62 Quotes)


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

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

    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 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 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'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.

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

    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.

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

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

    All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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

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

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

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

    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 appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

    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.

    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 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 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.

    All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    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 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.


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