Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.