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I'll tell you a wonderful story. Coming with all of these ideas that I had, and still have, and still feel because I never change and still believe in the same things. Soon after I was there in Hollywood, for some reason I was at a luncheon with Robert Taylor sitting next to me, and I asked him, 'Now, what are your ideas or what do you want to do,' and his answer was that he wanted to have 10 good suits to wear, elegant suits of all kinds, that was his idea. I practically fell under the table.
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I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.
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I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.
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The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
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I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.
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On Christmas night, I danced with all kinds of fellows with pimples and all kinds of sores. I suddenly felt, 'What is this being shy? I have to give myself, I just felt I didn't want to be shy, I didn't want to draw away, but give myself, I mean, not physically, but be there. It was a great lesson also for me, this tour through Africa and Italy during the war.
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I had a wonderful director, Sidney Franklin.... I worked from inside out. It's not for me, putting on a face, or putting on makeup, or making masquerade. It has to come from inside out. I knew what I wanted to do and he let me do it. Hollywood was a very strange place. To me, it was like a huge hotel with a huge door, one of those rotunda doors. On one side people went in, heads high, and very soon they came out on the other side, heads hanging.
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For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Born:
January 12, 1910
Died:
December 30, 2014
(aged 104)
Bio:
Luise Rainer was a German and American film actress. She was the first actor to win multiple Academy Awards and the first actress to win them consecutively.
Known for:
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The Good Earth (1937)
The Great Waltz (1938)
Escapade (1935)
The Toy Wife (1938)
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