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.

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.

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

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 never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

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

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

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.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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.

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

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.

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 - it's often catching.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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 don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

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.

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

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

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

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

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.

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.

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

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 talkers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.