A good deal of sex is quite amusing. Maybe, especially in marriage, people overestimate the good or bad that serious sex can do.

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

A Scorpio woman has extreme highs and lows of desire; my birthsign also says I'm a worrier. I like a good-spirited argument.

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.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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

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

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.

By 1929, I was spending my pocket money escaping into theh world of make-believe offered by movie magazines. I was still in a Vienna finishing school-but studying design.

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

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

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.

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.

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.

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 am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

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 appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

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

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 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.

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 don't like the rat-race of today. I prefer to wander through the woods or go to a lake and swim. To live a quiet life make me feel better. Life is too hectic. I don't feel comfortable in that atmosphere at all.

I don't think anybody could call me a lesbian, it's just that I sem to be the type that other women get queer ideas about.

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.

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.

I hate the Pollyanna attitude, but we all need something, some philosoophy to help us through every day.

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 have battled with newsmen and critics all my life, and concede that you can't win. But I tried, and I'm proud of it.

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 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 have it.

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.

I liked oversexed people. The few I know were always talented and sensitive. I'm oversexed, and I've never kept that a secret.

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.

I never had to take off weight. My problem has always been to put on weight. And I wouldn't like a place where you get regimented. When I want a vacation, I want to take off my shoes and be uninhibited.

I never liked beer. It's plebian. It goes with dirty undershirts.

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 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 seldom wake up of my own accord during the night. The one thing that will wake me up is a sexual urge.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've seen a lot of tragedy in my days, getting around the way I did.

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.

If I were to compare my style to some actresses, I would say I am a cross between Judy Garland and Greta Garbo. I love both those girls and I admire them too. They are true rebels.

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.

In 1937 our home was a focal point on the map. Hitler was on the move. It was surprising to me that so much of the world was unaware.

In my experience with writers I found that those who talk less are more talented. I sat a whole evening with Otto Preminger and Tennessee Williams and Mr. Williams said just 10 words.

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

It is my opinion that 90 percent of all accidents are willed by the people involved. There really are death wishes and accident wishes. I like to stay clear of careless, heroic, or daring people because the innocent often become involved.

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.

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

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

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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.

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

Many people, when it comes to sex, tire of the same mate. I grow more comfortable with him. I like to walk around the house with no clothes on, and you can only do this naturally in a mature relationship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My rule in education would be to know just one subject better than most anyone else. Even if you are a dolt in other matters.

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.

One social habit of Hollywood I never understood. The Zanuks hired Elsa Maxwell to arrange a pary. In Europe people accept that responsibility on their own.

People today want to do everthing-the idea is developing to live on the moon. I don't understand this because we have such a lovely earth; I think I will stay here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We had some wild sex photos taken of me and posted all over Highways 101, 66, and 60, in and out of town. They tell me it caused a seven-car pileup on the first Sunday.

What is this? Women are supposed to take care of their children, but they can't paint their own nails?

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

Without love there is no respect. Thus, what good is sex? Love should be flexible-a magic word. If a man doesn't respect me, I know we have no future.

You can't wash away something in your head unless you are brainwashed.