Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer
Luise Rainerwas a German and American film actress. She was the first actor to win multiple Academy Awards and the first actress to win them consecutively. The accomplishment was later matched by Katharine Hepburn in the late 1960s; Spencer Tracy in the 1930s and Tom Hanks in the 1990s won consecutive awards for best actor...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth12 January 1910
CityDusseldorf, Germany
CountryGermany
Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.
One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.
Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
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.
I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.
I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.
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.
I should have done more. I did too little of everything.
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.'
I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.
I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
I feel best in nature or near nature.
I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup.