Anita Loos Quotes
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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.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
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Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
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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.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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...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.
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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.
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I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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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.
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I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
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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.
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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.
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
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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.
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I've always loved high style in low company.
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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Memory is more indelible than ink.