29 Quotes by Louise Brooks

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.

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

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

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

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

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

And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

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.

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