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

- Louise Brooks

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

- Louise Brooks

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

- 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…

- Louise Brooks

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

- 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 a…

- Louise Brooks

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…

- Louise Brooks

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

- Louise Brooks

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

- Louise Brooks