Top 70 Hedy Lamarr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All creative people want to do the unexpected.”

— Hedy Lamarr

2. “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.”

— Hedy Lamarr

3. “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

— Hedy Lamarr

4. “Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.”

— Hedy Lamarr

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.”

— Hedy Lamarr

12. “I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.”

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Hedy Lamarr

14. “Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.”

— Hedy Lamarr

15. “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

16. “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

17. “Men are fine, love is fine, it’s marriage I’m a little disappointed in.”

— Hedy Lamarr

18. “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

19. “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.”

— Hedy Lamarr

20. “I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”

— Hedy Lamarr

21. “Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.”

— Hedy Lamarr

22. “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

23. “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

24. “I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that’s just the way I paint best.”

— Hedy Lamarr

25. “Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.”

— Hedy Lamarr

26. “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

27. “I was madly in love with life.”

— Hedy Lamarr

28. “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

29. “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.”

— Hedy Lamarr

30. “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.”

— Hedy Lamarr

31. “Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Hedy Lamarr

34. “Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.”

— Hedy Lamarr

35. “I still look good, though.”

— Hedy Lamarr

36. “I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.”

— Hedy Lamarr

37. “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

38. “All my six husbands married me for different reasons.”

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Hedy Lamarr

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.”

— Hedy Lamarr

47. “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

48. “That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.”

— Hedy Lamarr

49. “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

50. “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.”

— Hedy Lamarr