Luise 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

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own. — Marie Luise Knott

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

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness. — Marie-Luise Gothein

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

Literature destabilizes thought by breaking open language and smuggling in sound, rhythm, and image--an invasion of aesthetics. More easily than analytic writing, poetry can emancipate itself from the standard definitions of words, enabling a breakthrough to new (and perhaps wayward or even nonsensical) meaning, which can then develop after the fact--different at each new reading. Literary language is presumptuous. It dips into the unknown in order to get nearer to a truth different from that of the superficially visible. As the poet Franz Josef Czernin described it, it is as though one step after another into emptiness could become a ladder. Literary writing can take the writers themselves by surprise; it can disturb and disappoint them--for stirring up turmoil is inherent in metaphor. Thus with every flash of understanding that comes from hearing or reading a poem, the fundamental work of thinking is taken up anew. — Marie Luise Knott

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

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein

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

I felt very alone in Hollywood. — Luise Rainer

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein

I feel best in nature or near nature. — 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 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

I am an actress. I am not a movie star. — Luise Rainer

I should have done more. I did too little of everything. — Luise Rainer

In Hamburg on 30 April 1945, hearing of Hitler's death, which she believed to have been caused by his having poisoned himself, Luise Solmitz at last felt free to release the hatred that she had been building up for him over the previous months. He was, she wrote in her diary, 'the shabbiest failure in world history'. He was 'uncompromising, unbridled, irresponsible', qualities that had at first brought him success but then led to catastrophe. 'National — Richard J. Evans

I always considered myself the world's worst actress. — Luise Rainer

Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the
contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a
like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their
gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation. — Marie-Luise Gothein

I admire people who are creative. — Luise Rainer

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants. — Luise Rainer

You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing. — Marie Luise Kaschnitz

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original. — Luise Rainer

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed. — Luise Rainer

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. — Luise Rainer