Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer
Luise Rainerwas a German and American film actress. She was the first actor to win multiple Academy Awards and the first actress to win them consecutively. The accomplishment was later matched by Katharine Hepburn in the late 1960s; Spencer Tracy in the 1930s and Tom Hanks in the 1990s won consecutive awards for best actor...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth12 January 1910
CityDusseldorf, Germany
CountryGermany
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.
In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.
One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.
I always considered myself the world's worst actress.
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,