The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. — 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 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… — Louise Brooks Copy Share
“Over the years I suffered poverty and rejection and came to believe that my mother had formed me for a freedom that was unattainable, a delusion. Then ... I was ... confined to this small apartment in this alien city of Rochester. ... Looking about, I saw millions of old people in my situation, wailing like lost puppies because they… — Louise Brooks Copy Share
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
