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 not a myth. I am a reality.
I am not a dream. I am awake.
I am not a fantasy. I am real.
I am not a mystery. I am open.
I am not a secret. I am known.
I am not a riddle. I am clear.
I am not a puzzle. I am solved.
I am not a question. I am an answer.
I am not a problem. I am a solution.
I am not a challenge. I am an opportunity.
I am not a burden. I am a gift.
I am not a curse. I am a blessing.
I am not a mistake. I am a lesson.
I am not a failure. I am a success.
I am not a loser. I am a winner.
I am not a nobody. I am somebody.
I am not a thing. I am a person.
I am not an object. I am a subject.
I am not a tool. I am a creator.
I am not a follower. I am a leader.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).