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)
I am a complicated woman with a simple life.
I never set out to invent anything. I just saw a problem and tried to solve it.
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
It's the ideas that excite me. The application of an idea, that's where the creation happens.
I have walked into many dangers with my eyes wide open, trusting my own judgment.
The best advice I can give to women is: Don't give up your independence for anyone.
I was told that I would never be taken seriously because of my face. So I had to work twice as hard to be heard.
Invention is the most intense form of individualism.
I don't want to be remembered as a sex symbol. I would rather be remembered for my contributions to technology.
The screen magnifies everything, especially flaws. In life, you can hide. On screen, you cannot.
I have a mind that likes to solve problems. That is my nature.
Love is a strange master, and human beings are its slaves.
I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be an inventor, but fate cast me in another role.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).