Louise Brooks Quotes

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

  Louise Brooks

  Conquer The World, Purses, Empty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Louise Brooks

  Excellence, Form, Results

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

  Louise Brooks

  Heart, Trying, Usual

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

  Louise Brooks

  Art, Soul, Faces

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

  Louise Brooks

  Dance, Dancing, Chaplin

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• When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

  Louise Brooks

  Girl, Sweaters, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

  Louise Brooks

  Real, Writing, Blow

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

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores You, People

  "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.

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• 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.

  Louise Brooks

  Love Is, Waiting, Making Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

  Louise Brooks

  Inspiration, Writing, Elimination

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

  Louise Brooks

  Dance, Dream, Cripples

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

  Louise Brooks

  Stars, Careers, World

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

  Louise Brooks

  Movie, Film History, People

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

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores You, Bores

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Louise Brooks

  Wish, Given

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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 much smarter.

  Louise Brooks

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

  Louise Brooks

  Names, Giving, Anecdotes

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

  Louise Brooks

  Actors, Natural, Absent

  1982 Lulu in Hollywood.

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