Anecdotes Quote by Louise Brooks

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

— Louise Brooks

“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

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 soul transmitted…

— Louise Brooks

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

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 a dancer…

— 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