Luise Rainer Quotations

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.

One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

I admire people who are creative.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.