Anita Loos > Quotes

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

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

“Fate keeps happening.”
― Anita Loos

“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.”
― 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.”
― Anita Loos, Cast of Thousands

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

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

“You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“...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.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“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.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“December 1931 was drawing to a close and Hollywood was aglow with Christmas spirit, undaunted by sizzling sunshine, palm trees, and the dry encircling hills that would never feel the kiss of snow. But the “Know-how” that would transform the Chaplin studio in the frozen Chilkoot Pass could easily achieve a white Christmas. In Wilson’s Rolls-Royce convertible, we drove past Christmas trees heavy with fake snow. An entire estate on Fairfax Avenue had been draped in cotton batting; carolers straight out of Dickens were at its gate, perspiring under mufflers and greatcoats. The street signs on Hollywood Boulevard had been changed to Santa Claus Lane. They drooped with heavy glass icicles. A parade was led by a band blaring out “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” followed by Santa driving a sleigh. But Hollywood granted Santa the extra dimension of a Sweetheart and seated beside him was Clara Bow (or was it Mabel Normand?)”
― Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Good-By

“I really think if I do not get the diamond tiara my whole trip to London will be quite a failure”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“After all, there is nothing that gives a girl more of a thrill than brains in a gentleman.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Paris is devine”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“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.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Money was not everything, because after all, it is only brains that count.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“When a gentleman who is as important as Mr. Eisman, spends quite a lot of money educating a girl, it really does not show reverance to call a gentleman by his first name. I mean I never even think of calling Mr. Eisman by his first name, but if I want to call him anything at all, I call him “Daddy”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Because I decided not to read the book by Mr. Cellini. I mean it was quite amuseing in spots because it was really quite riskay but the spots were not so close together and I never seem to like to always be hunting clear through a book for the spots I am looking for, especially when there are really not so many spots that seem to be so amuseing after all.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“When you are travelling you really ought to take advantadges of what you can not do at home.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to read every month to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

“I mean I was quite proud of Dorothy the way she stood up for my reputation. Because I really think that there is nothing so wonderful as two girls when they stand up for each other and help each other a lot.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“I've had my best times trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

“So yesterday he took me to Dr. Froyd. So Dr. Froyd and I had quite a long talk in the english landguage. So it seems that everybody seems to have a thing called inhibitions, which is when you want to do a thing and you do not do it. So then you dream about it instead. So Dr. Froyd asked me, what I seemed to dream about. So I told him that I never really dream about anything. I mean I use my brains so much in the day time that at night they do not seem to do anything else but rest.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Gentleman”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“And so I am very happy myself because, after all, the greatest thing in life is to always be making everybody else happy. And so, while everybody is so happy, I really think it is a good time to finish my diary because after all, I am to busy going over my senarios with Mr. Montrose, to keep up any other kind of literary work. And I am so busy bringing sunshine into the life of Henry that I really think, with everything else I seem to acomplish, it is all a girl had ought to try to do. And so I really think that I can say good-bye to my diary feeling that, after all, everything always turns out for the best.”
― Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes