29 Quotes by Louise Brooks

In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the character and deeds of the subject unless he is given a basic understanding of that person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts. It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

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

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.

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

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

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

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

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