Anita Loos Quotations

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever

When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.

with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!