Luise Rainer Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Luise Rainer:
Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
~Luise Rainer
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I should have done more. I did too little of everything.
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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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The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
~Luise Rainer
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The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.
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One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
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I am an actress. I am not a movie star.
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I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.
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I always considered myself the world's worst actress.
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I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup.
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I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.
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Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.
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I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
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The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
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I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
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I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.
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One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.
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I felt very alone in Hollywood.
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Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
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I admire people who are creative.
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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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Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
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I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.
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I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.
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In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.
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I feel best in nature or near nature.
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I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.
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