Hedy Lamarr
An Austrian-born American film actress and inventor who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.
Most quoted
"I'm a very good cook and a very good homemaker. I'm a very good wife and mother. I'm a very good friend. I'm a very good person. I'm a very good actress. I'm a very good inventor. I'm a very good everything."
— from Attributed Quote
"My face has been my misfortune. It has attracted six unsuccessful marriage partners. It has attracted all the wrong people into my boudoir and brought me tragedy and heartache for five decades."
— from Autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me', 1966
"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."
— from Autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me', 1966
All quotes by Hedy Lamarr (374)
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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.
I am a very good cook and a very good housekeeper. I can do anything.
I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress.
I was a little girl who was always inventing things. I invented a new kind of traffic light, and I invented a new kind of airplane.
The public can be a very curious animal.
I'm a very simple person. I like simple things.
I have always been ahead of my time.
I'm not an inventor. I just put things together.
I don't believe in love at first sight. I believe in lust at first sight.
I have been accused of being a siren, a femme fatale, a temptress. I am none of these things.
I am not a beautiful woman. I am a woman who can be beautiful.
I am not interested in money. I am interested in ideas.
I am not a genius. I am just a person who is curious.
I am not a sex symbol. I am a human being.
I am not a Hollywood star. I am an actress.
I am not a saint. I am a sinner.
I am not a victim. I am a survivor.
I am not a legend. I am a woman.
I am not a goddess. I am a human.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).