Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.