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

Louise Brooks

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

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Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

Louise Brooks

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

Louise Brooks

I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

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Born: November 14, 1906

Died: August 8, 1985 (aged 78)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Pandora's Box (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Beauty Prize (1930)
Beggars of Life (1928)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)

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