Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

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.

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 never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

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.

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.