Who is Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria on the 9th November 1914 and died on the 19th January 2000. She was an Austrian-American actress and producer, as well as later becoming an acclaimed inventor. She starred in films across Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic before fleeing to London, where she met the head of MGM studios and was offered a contract for Hollywood.
This led to her becoming a star in 1938 as a result of her performance in Algiers and subsequent movies throughout the 1940s, often starring alongside leading actors of the time including Clark Cable in Boom Town and Jimmy Stewart in Come Live with me. Disillusioned by her situation, she founded a production company and starred in further films, with one of her most acclaimed roles coming in 1949, when she played Delilah in Samson and Delilah.
Away from her film career, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system that was designed to use frequency hopping spread spectrum to remove the threat of signal jamming. This technology wasn’t used by the US military but the same techniques were later adopted in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and as a result, she was recognised for her work in 2014. A celebrated actor and inventor, Lamarr is a true inspiration to us all.
Hedy Lamarr Quotes
1.I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
2.All creative people want to do the unexpected.
3.Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
4.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.
5.Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
6.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.
7.Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
8.Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
9.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.
10.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.
11.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.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.
15.American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
16.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.
17.I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
18.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.
19.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.
20.Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
21.A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
22.All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
23.Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
24.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.
25.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.
26.I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
27.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.
29.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.
30.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.
31.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.
32.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.
33.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.
34.It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
35.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.
36.Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
37.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.
38.Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
39.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.
40.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.
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.
42.I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
43.I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts
44.If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
45.Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
46.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.
47.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.
48.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.
49.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.
50.I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
51.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.
52.Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
53.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.
54.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.
55.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.
56.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.
57.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.
58.To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
59.If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
60.The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
