Brooks Quote by Laura Moriarty

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive…

— Laura Moriarty

I'm very into Louise Brooks, a 1930s icon. I also love Dona Drake. She's a beauty icon and also super smart.

— Taylor Russell

While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and…

— Laura Moriarty

I learned so much from Jane Lynch. She was the funniest and most talented person. She taught me so much about being a performer.

— Chord Overstreet

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to…

— Elisabeth Moss

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her…

— Rumaan Alam

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

— Casey Wilson

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

— Charlize Theron

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're…

— Diane Kruger

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she…

— Beth Macy

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I…

— Christine Lakin

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

— Richard Widmark