Luise Rainer Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything. — Luise Rainer

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost. — Luise Rainer

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else. — Luise Rainer

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor. — Luise Rainer

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy. — Luise Rainer

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. — Luise Rainer

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. — Luise Rainer

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political. — Luise Rainer

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it. — Luise Rainer

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress. — Luise Rainer

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. — Luise Rainer

One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing. — Luise Rainer

I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup. — Luise Rainer

I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy. — Luise Rainer

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo. — Luise Rainer

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.' — Luise Rainer

I feel best in nature or near nature. — Luise Rainer

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. — Luise Rainer