Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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Hedy Lamarr

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 9, 1914

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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