Quote

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Anita Loos

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Memoirist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
Brunettes
Blondes
Brunette
Gentlemen
Marry
Gentleman
Prefer

More quotes by Anita Loos

Image
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them to live inthe great world outside movies to meet people who created their own situations through living them who ad-libbed their own dialogue whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
Anita Loos
Image
Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
Anita Loos
Image
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.
Anita Loos
Image
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
Image
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
Image
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.
Anita Loos
Image
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos
Image
Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
Anita Loos
Image
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Anita Loos
Image
Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, naughty meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
Anita Loos
Image
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.
Anita Loos
Image
A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Anita Loos
Image
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.
Anita Loos
Image
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
Image
Fate keeps on happening.
Anita Loos
Image
...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.
Anita Loos
Image
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.
Anita Loos
Image
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Anita Loos
Image
There's nothing colder than chemistry.
Anita Loos
Image
Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
Anita Loos