Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks, born Mary Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer noted as an iconic symbol of the flapper, and for popularizing the bobbed haircut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 November 1906
CityCherryvale, KS
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
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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.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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For 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...