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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.