Louise Brooks Quotes

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

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

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.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...

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

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

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

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

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