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

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

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
Hedy Lamarr

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Hedy Lamarr

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

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr

Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.
Hedy Lamarr

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


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

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

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.
Hedy Lamarr

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.
Hedy Lamarr

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

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
Hedy Lamarr

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

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Hedy Lamarr

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

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