Louise Brooks

“When I'm in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I'm in Europe, I want to be in New York.”

“I was a rebel. I was a rebel from the time I was a little girl.”

“A well-dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”

“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.”

“Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant chore.”

“Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”

“I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned how to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.”

“I never made a movie I liked.”

“The thing that is unforgivable is to be boring.”

“Making a film is a bed of thorns, but it's a bed of roses compared to the aftermath.”

“I would not have been a star, because I would not have been a success with the American public, who cannot accept the truth.”

“Dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies was the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.”