35 Hedy Lamarr Quotes From The Iconic Actress And Inventor
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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American silver screen actress who contributed to the invention of radio guidance system.
Hedy Lamarr was a perfect example of beauty with brains. Along with acting, she had a curiosity about the future too.
To Hedy, the unknown was so attractive that the future seemed better than guarantees. As a result, she began to work towards fulfilling her curiosity and emerged as successful. Hedy's hard work paid off on film reels as well as in real life.
Her reel work was also appreciated very much and she was the most beautiful actress of her time. By co-inventing radio guidance system, the actress also made the life of the future generations easier. Here are a few quotes by Hedy Lamarr.
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Lifestyle Quotes From Hedy Lamarr
Take notes on how to look glamorous by going through the list of Hedy Lamarr quotes about the lifestyle of the actress. Check these Hedy Lamarr quotes out.
1. "I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win."
-Hedy Lamarr.
2. "I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand."
-Hedy Lamarr.
3. "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
-Hedy Lamarr.
4. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
5. "Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
-Hedy Lamarr.
6. "Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."
-Hedy Lamarr.
7. "I was madly in love with life."
-Hedy Lamarr.
8. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
9. "If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself... We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers."
-Hedy Lamarr.
10. "To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."
-Hedy Lamarr.
11. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
Hedy Lamarr Quotes About People
Here are a few Hedy Lamarr quotes on men and women or people in general that the actress observed. Check these Hedy Lamarr quotes out.
12. "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.
13. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
14. "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.
15. "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.
16. "All creative people want to do the unexpected."
-Hedy Lamarr.
17. "I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way."
-Hedy Lamarr.
18. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
19. "It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."
-Hedy Lamarr.
20. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
21. "I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit."
-Hedy Lamarr.
22. "It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy."
-Hedy Lamarr.
23. "Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in."
-Hedy Lamarr.
24. "Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."
-Hedy Lamarr.
Best Hedy Lamarr Quotes
Hedy was quite humorous as an actress. Below is a list of few Hedy Lamarr quotes where she used humor time and again to portray the truth about life that inspire us.
25. "Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
-Hedy Lamarr.
26. "Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
-Hedy Lamarr.
27. "A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
-Hedy Lamarr.
28. "Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?"
-Hedy Lamarr.
29. "I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."
-Hedy Lamarr.
30. "Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me… and still is."
-Hedy Lamarr.
31. "Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever."
-Hedy Lamarr.
32. "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."
-Hedy Lamarr.
33. "Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry."
-Hedy Lamarr.
34. "I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
-Hedy Lamarr.
35. "A man does not try to find out what is inside. He does not try to scratch the surface. If he did he might find something much more beautiful than the shape of a nose or the color of an eye."
-Hedy Lamarr.
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