Hedy Lamarr Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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