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Hedy Lamarr
November 9, 1914 - January 19, 2000
Nationality: Austrian
Category: Actress
Subcategory: Austrian Actress

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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 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.

   

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

   

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

   

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 was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

   

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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

   

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