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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
Hedy Lamarr
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Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.
Hedy Lamarr
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
Hedy Lamarr
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
Hedy Lamarr
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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Men are most virile and most 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.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
Hedy Lamarr
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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
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
Hedy Lamarr
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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Hedy Lamarr
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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
