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

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..

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

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

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 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 giv….

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out ….

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

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..

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 n….

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

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

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

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

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..

I was madly in love with life..

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 a….

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory..