“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
Famous Hedy Lamarr Quotes
- “I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.”
2. “A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”
3. “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
4. “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.”
5. “Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me…and still is.”
6. “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.”
7. “I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.”
8. “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.”
9. “Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.”
10. “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.”
Hedy Lamarr Quotes About Life
11. “Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.”
12. “I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts.”
13. “Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”
14. “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.”
15. “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.”
16. “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.”
17. “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.”
18. “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.”
19. “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.”
20. “A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”
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21. “If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself… We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.”
22. “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.”
23. “I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.”
24. “I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand.”
25. “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.”
26. “Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.”
27. “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 Quotes About People
28. “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.”
29. “Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.”
30. “I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.”
31. “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.”
32. “To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”
33. “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.”
34. “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.”
35. “I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.”
Hedy Lamarr was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actress and inventor. She was a movie star during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
She fled her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris after a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933). While in London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood.
With her performance in Algiers (1938), she established herself as a film star. Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942) are among her MGM films. Her greatest success came as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949).
She also appeared on television before her final film, The Female Animal (1958). In 1960, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.