Quotes by Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

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

Conquer The World

Empty

Purses

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.

Anecdotes

Giving

Names

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

Excellence

Form

Results

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

Absent

Actors

Natural

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.

Blow

Real

Writing

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

Heart

Trying

Usual

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

Bores You

Knives

People

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

Chaplin

Dance

Dancing

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

Given

Wish

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

Bores

Bores You

Knives

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Bores

Bores You

Careers

Chaplin

Conquer The World

Cripples

Dance

Dancing

Dream

Elimination

Empty

Excellence

Faces

Film History

Form

Girl

Given

Giving

Heart

Hollywood

Inspiration

Knives

Love Is

Making Love

Movie

Names

Natural

People

Purses

Real

Results

Smart

Soul

Stars

Sweaters

Trying

Usual

Waiting

Wish

World

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Quotes by Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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