“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel

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Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn… 1914–2000

Hedy Lamarr quote: “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

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