Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
“Over the years I suffered poverty and rejection and came to believe that my mother had formed me for a freedom that was unattainable,… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
