Quotes from Louise Brooks

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

In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the character and deeds of the subject unless he is given a basic understanding of that person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts. It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.

And so I have remained... an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful.

He understood my passion for books, which has made me perhaps the best-read idiot in the world.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.