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

- Louise Brooks

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.

- Louise Brooks

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

- Louise Brooks

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

- Louise Brooks

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

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

- Louise Brooks

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

- Louise Brooks