Anita Loos Quotes

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.

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

Gentlemen prefer blondes ... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

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.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

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

His mother is having treatments by Dr. Froyd...it is quite hard for Dr. Froyd, because she cannot seem to remember which is a dream and which really happened to her. So she tells him everything, and he has to use his judgement. I mean when she tells him that a very very handsome young gentleman tried to flirt with her on Fifth Avenue, he uses his judgment.

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

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.

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

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

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.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever

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

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion.

So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.

In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Fate keeps happening.

I've always loved high style in low company.

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

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

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

Memory is more indelible than ink.

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

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

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