Best 47 quotes of Hedy Lamarr on MyQuotes

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.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

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

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

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

A man does not try to find out what is inside. He does not try to scratch the surface. If he did he might find something much more beautiful than the shape of a nose or the color of an eye.