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)
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
Some people think beauty is a curse. It definitely has been for me.
Invention is not always about creating something new; sometimes it's about improving what's there.
I never, never rest, that's why I'm a success.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
My inventions were not recognized in my time, but they paved the way for modern technology.
Life is too short to be anything but fabulous.
I turned down parts because I didn't want to play the same role over and over.
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
In war, invention is the mother of necessity.
I've been called a beauty, but I prefer to be called an inventor.
The screen is my laboratory.
Patents are like marriage; they bind you but don't always bring happiness.
Women have to be strong, but not too strong.
Frequency hopping was my way to help win the war without firing a shot.
Fame is fleeting, but invention lasts.
I read science fiction, and that sparked my ideas.
Directors always say, 'Be yourself,' but who is that?
Age is just a number, beauty is in the mind.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).