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Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth. 
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry. 
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. 
All my six husbands married me for different reasons. 
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. 
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. 
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer. 
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me ... and still is. 
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. 
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. 
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. 
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. 
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. 
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. 
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. 
I still look good, though. 
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. 
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. 
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win. 
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever. 
All creative people want to do the unexpected. 
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello. 
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life. 
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. 
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody. 
Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake. 
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. 
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. 
Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect. 
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. 