Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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• 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.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Play Time, People

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  All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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  People, Creative, Want

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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  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.

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  Sex, Men, Age

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

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  Technology, Forever, Film

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

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  Curiosity, Guarantees, Attractive

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

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  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  Quoted in Richard Schickel, The Stars (1962)

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

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  Secret, Trying, Said

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

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  Art, Enemy, Despise

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

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  Mean, Bakeries, Cheesecake

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  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

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

  96 Copy quote

• I was madly in love with life.

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  Love Life, Madly In Love

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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, Jobs, Thinking

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

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  Blessing, People, Boredom

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

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  Winning, Years, Care

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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

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  Men, Two, Groups

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• 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.

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  Money, People, Advise

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Order, Massage

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• 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.

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  Running, Want Something, People

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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

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  Puppets, Analysis, Emotion

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

  63 Copy quote

• To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

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  Stars, People, World

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

  39 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Independence, Important, Needs

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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.

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  Dog, Home, Kids

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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

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  Art, Inspire, Comfort

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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.

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  Children, Father, Fire

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