Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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

Funny, Stupid, Girl

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Dad, Father, Loved

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

Art, Good, Friend

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Death, Fear, Understand

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Health, Money

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Money, Else, Lives

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Funny, Women, Men

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

Words, Become, Tolerance

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

Girl, Pretty, Divorce

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Good, Woman, Her

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

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

Time, Great, Freedom

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

Live, Mean, Bakery

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Everything, Knew, House

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Door, Felt, Key

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Beauty, Beautiful, Mother

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Success, True, Sleep

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

Creative, Unexpected

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

Money, Men, Two

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Great, Someone, Else

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
Hedy Lamarr

Everything, Boring, Boredom

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Money, Job, Why

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Girl

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.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Less, Talking

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Born: November 9, 1914

Died: January 19, 2000

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