Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

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

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.