Quotes About Louise Brooks

#1. Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

Gayle Forman

#2. Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Laura Moriarty

#3. I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

Laura Moriarty

#4. There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

Henri Langlois

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

Louise Brooks

#6. As much as I'd like to pretend that I'm not performing, I think any actor sometimes has themselves outside of themselves and is trying to direct themselves and control what you're seeing and thinking.

Patrick Fabian

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

Louise Brooks

#8. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

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

Louise Brooks

#10. 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.

Louise Brooks

#11. Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?

Diana Palmer

#12. [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.

Louise Brooks

#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.

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks

#15. They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

Melissa Marr

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

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks

#19. We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

Ian Williams

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

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks

#22. 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.

Louise Brooks

#23. 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.

Louise Brooks

#24. 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.

Louise Brooks

#25. I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

Colin Hay

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

Louise Brooks

#27. My tiny scary friend is coming here.

Laini Taylor

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

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks