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57 Interesting Quotes By Anita Loos

Famous As: Actress & Screenwriter
Born On: April 26, 1889
Died On: August 18, 1981
Born In: Mount Shasta
Died At Age: 92
Anita Loos was a celebrated American author, screenwriter and playwright. She is known for her bestselling comic novel titled, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. In 1912, she took up writing movie scripts and became the first-ever staff scriptwriter. She was put on payroll at ‘Triangle Film Corporation’ by ‘D.W Griffith’. She penned down various ‘Douglas Fairbanks’ films and also wrote the adaption of Colette’s ‘Gigi’. Some of her popular works include, ‘A Mouse Is Born’, ‘A Girl Like I’, ‘The Talmadge Girls’, ‘How To Write Photoplays’, ‘Fate Keeps On Happening: Adventures Of Lorelei Lee And Other Writings’, amongst various others. Following is a collection of quotations and sayings by Anita Loos which have been extracted from the vast sea of her writings, books, thoughts and plays. Read through the quotes and thoughts by Anita Loos on opposites, thinking, creativity, sex, religion, memorable, chemistry, drinkers, solitary, style, thoughtful, writing, acting, talent and more.
Memory is more indelible than ink.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Anita Loos
I've always loved high style in low company.

I've always loved high style in low company.

Anita Loos
Fate keeps happening.

Fate keeps happening.

Anita Loos
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

Anita Loos
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Anita Loos
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

Anita Loos
I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

Anita Loos
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Anita Loos
You can say what you want about the Germans being full of

You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.

Anita Loos
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Anita Loos
I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.

I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.

Anita Loos
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

Anita Loos
The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

Anita Loos
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Anita Loos
... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ...

... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ...

Anita Loos
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

Anita Loos

I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

Anita Loos

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Anita Loos
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

Anita Loos
Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

Anita Loos
And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Anita Loos
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

Anita Loos
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Anita Loos
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

Anita Loos
Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Anita Loos
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Anita Loos
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

Anita Loos
Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Anita Loos
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

Anita Loos