Luise Rainer Quotes

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• For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,
• I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on…
• The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
• Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.
• I always considered myself the world's worst actress.
• One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
• The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
• I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.
• In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone…
• I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were…
• I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
• Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.
• I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.
• I should have done more. I did too little of everything.
• Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
• Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
• I felt very alone in Hollywood.
• I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing,…
• I admire people who are creative.
• I feel best in nature or near nature.

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