Quotes by Hedy Lamarr

About Hedy Lamarr:

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor.
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Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameHedy Lamarr
  • DescriptionAustrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
  • AliasesHedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
  • BornNovember 9, 1914
  • DiedJanuary 19, 2000
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Austria
  • ProfessionActor; Inventor; Autobiographer
  • AwardsEFF Pioneer Award