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

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

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.

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.

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

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Men are most virile and 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.

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

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.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

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

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 have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

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.

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

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...

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.

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 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.