Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

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.

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.

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.

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 was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

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

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.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

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.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

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.

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.

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.