Quotes from Hedy Lamarr

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

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

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'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.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

I was madly in love with life.

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

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.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

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