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Nature & Animals Quote by Hedy Lamarr

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season"

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Lamarr’s line lands like a small, polished scandal: the glamorous screen siren calmly claiming she’s “a very good shot,” then drawing a hard moral border around when she’ll use it. In a culture that loved to frame actresses as ornamental, she asserts competence in a codedly masculine skill (guns, hunting, precision) without asking permission. The first two sentences are a flex, but not a cartoonish one; they’re delivered with the matter-of-fact authority of someone used to being underestimated and bored by it.

Then comes the pivot: “But I would never kill an animal during mating season.” That “but” is the whole move. She’s not rejecting hunting; she’s rejecting thoughtless power. The subtext is restraint as sophistication: real control isn’t the ability to take life, it’s the choice not to, especially when life is being made. It’s an ethic that reads as both practical (protecting populations) and quietly romantic (a respect for vulnerability and continuity). Coming from an actress whose public image was built on desirability, the mating-season clause also plays like an ironic wink at the commodification of sex: nature gets a protected window, while human desire gets marketed year-round.

Context matters: Lamarr spent much of her career negotiating being treated as a face rather than a mind, even as she co-invented technology foundational to modern wireless communication. This quote fits that pattern. It’s a compact manifesto: yes, I can play your game; no, I won’t play it stupidly.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lamarr, Hedy. (2026, January 15). I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-a-very-good-shot-i-have-hunted-for-every-140954/

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Lamarr, Hedy. "I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-a-very-good-shot-i-have-hunted-for-every-140954/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-a-very-good-shot-i-have-hunted-for-every-140954/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1914 - January 19, 2000) was a Actress from Austria.

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