Top 39 Luise Rainer Quotes
#1. I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.
Luise Rainer
#3. I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
Luise Rainer
#4. Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
Luise Rainer
#5. One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.
Luise Rainer
#6. When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.
Misha Collins
#7. The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.
Virginia Postrel
#8. I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup.
Luise Rainer
#9. I always considered myself the world's worst actress.
Luise Rainer
#10. Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,
Walter Smith
#11. One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
Luise Rainer
#13. I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.
Luise Rainer
#14. The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
Luise Rainer
#15. I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.
Luise Rainer
#16. Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
Luise Rainer
#17. For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.
Luise Rainer
#18. Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Luise Rainer
#20. Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
Mary Roach
#21. This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.
Bruno Barbey
#22. The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.
Luise Rainer
#23. I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
Jane Pauley
#24. I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.
Luise Rainer
#25. I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.
Luise Rainer
#26. If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.
James O'Shaughnessy
#28. The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
Michel Tournier
#29. I should have done more. I did too little of everything.
Luise Rainer
#30. You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.
Mandy Hale
#31. Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.
Luise Rainer
#32. The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
Luise Rainer
#33. In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.
Luise Rainer
#34. I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.
Luise Rainer
#35. All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
Catharine MacKinnon
#36. I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.
Luise Rainer
#37. I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
Luise Rainer
#38. The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
Baltasar Gracian
#39. Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
Jodi Picoult
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