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 sheep. I am a wolf.
I am not a lamb. I am a lion.
I am not a mouse. I am an elephant.
I am not a whisper. I am a shout.
I am not a shadow. I am a light.
I am not a darkness. I am a dawn.
I am not an end. I am a beginning.
I am not a past. I am a future.
I am not a memory. I am a hope.
I am not a dream. I am reality.
I don't fear death. I fear not living.
Films have become more complex and demands have got harder with every picture.
The reason I have always felt so patriotic toward America is that it is the only country in the world where you can be a free citizen and a movie star at the same time.
I am not an actress - I am a personality.
It was the war that got me interested in electronics.
Hoping to escape the glamour of show business, I have become an inventor. But I have not escaped the glamour.
I have produced a device that will allow torpedoes to be guided to a target by radio signals.
Beauty is being comfortable and loving yourself.
If you use your brain, you can invent things.
I was always interested in how things worked.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).