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

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

I still look good, though.

I was madly in love with life.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

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

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

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

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.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

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

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

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

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.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

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.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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.

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