Any girl can be 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.
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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.
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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.
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.
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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.
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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.
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.
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.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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.
Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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.
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
