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.
Louise BrooksThere is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise BrooksThe 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.
Louise BrooksThe tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
Louise BrooksI learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Louise BrooksA well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
Louise BrooksLove 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.
Louise BrooksWhen 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 and piles of furs.
Louise BrooksFor 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.
Louise BrooksEvery actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
Louise BrooksI do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise BrooksAnyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
Louise Brooks