"Love is a publicity stunt, and making love,……" — 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 the studio to call."
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17 Quotes by Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks has 17 quotes on this site.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it…
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't…
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits…
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so…
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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