Louise Brooks
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Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American silent film actress, dancer, model, showgirl and writer.
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- I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
- Lulu in Hollywood (1982)
- I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.
- Looking for Lulu (1998)
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- A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
- Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
- I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.
- Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
- I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
