Louise Brooks Quotes

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead