Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.