Hedy Lamarr > Quotes

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

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

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

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

“Men are most virile and 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.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“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.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“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

“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.”
― Hedy Lamarr

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

“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.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“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

“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, Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman

“I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“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.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“Try everyting. Join everything.Meet everybody. That's the secret of life.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?”
― Hedy Lamarr

“It's easy to look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“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

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

“m a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.”
― Hedy Lamarr