Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks, born Mary Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer noted as an iconic symbol of the flapper, and for popularizing the bobbed haircut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 November 1906
CityCherryvale, KS
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful dumb girls smart
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
given kept
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.
names giving lists
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.
actors natural absent
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
beautiful girl smart
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
knives bores-you people
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
dance chaplin charlie
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
bores-you knives bores
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
movie film-history people
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
real writing blow
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...
heart trying usual
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
wish given
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
dance dream cripples
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
love-is waiting making-love
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 call.