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Louise Brooks
9 quotes
“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lulu in Hollywood (1982)
“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Looking for Lulu (1998)
“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in the barn.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
“The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
“I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
“A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was navigating, but not seeing.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source