Louise Brooks

“Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.”

“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

“There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.”

“In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.”

“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.”