Hedy Lamarr Quotes

“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”

“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.”

“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 win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”