Best 14 quotes of Louise Brooks on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the character and deeds of the subject unless he is given a basic understanding of that person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts. It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.