Louise Brooks

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the…

— Louise Brooks

“Over the years I suffered poverty and rejection and came to believe that my mother had formed me for a freedom that…

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

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

— Louise Brooks

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and…

— Louise Brooks

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier…

— Louise Brooks

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time…

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become…

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

— Louise Brooks

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half…

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks