Louise Brooks Quotes

"Love 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."

"Most beautiful 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."

"When 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."

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