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.

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.

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

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.