Hedy Lamarr Quotes - Page 2

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.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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'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.

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

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

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.