Louise Brooks Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

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#6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#12. Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

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#13. And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

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#14. [about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful.

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#15. 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.

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

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

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

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