Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

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

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.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

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.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

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

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

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.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

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.

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

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.

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

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.

I was madly in love with life.

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.