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.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. - Louise Brooks
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
- Louise Brooks
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world. - Louise Brooks
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
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
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…
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead - Louise Brooks
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act. - Louise Brooks
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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
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…
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history. - Louise Brooks
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. - Louise Brooks
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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
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…
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