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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. "

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" 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. "

Hedy Lamarr

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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. "

" It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. "

" 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. "

" 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

Ugly

Mother

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

" Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. "

" 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 my six husbands married me for different reasons. "

" I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails. "

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

" 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. "