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Let's face it: I want it alljust like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try. — Lauren Bacall
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
— Lauren Bacall
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
— Lauren Bacall
The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
— Lauren Bacall
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
— Lauren Bacall
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
— Lauren Bacall
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
His attention span was not long, shall we say?
— Lauren Bacall
I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
— Lauren Bacall
I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
— Lauren Bacall
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
— Lauren Bacall
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
— Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
— John Heard
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.
— Lauren Bacall
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
— Lauren Bacall
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
— Lauren Bacall
I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it ... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
— Lauren Bacall
What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
— Lauren Bacall
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
— Lauren Bacall
A planned life is a dead life.
— Lauren Bacall
It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.
— Lauren Bacall
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
— Lauren Bacall
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
— Lauren Bacall
I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
— Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
— Lauren Bacall
Acting is a life of rejection.
— Lauren Bacall
Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
— Lauren Bacall
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
— Lauren Bacall
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
— Dennis Miller
Patience was not my strong point.
— Lauren Bacall
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
— Lauren Bacall
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
— Lauren Bacall
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
— Lauren Bacall
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
— Lauren Bacall
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
— Lauren Bacall
I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
— Lauren Bacall
No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
— Lauren Bacall
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen ... Growing up takes longer than you think.
— Lauren Bacall
Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.
— Josephine De La Baume
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
— Lauren Bacall
Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
— Lauren Bacall
As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
— Lauren Bacall
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
— Lauren Bacall
You can't always be a leading lady.
— Lauren Bacall
I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
— Lauren Bacall
Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.
— Lauren Bacall
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
— Lauren Bacall
You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
— Lauren Bacall
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
— Lauren Bacall
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
— Lauren Bacall
We live in an age of mediocrity.
— Lauren Bacall
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
— Lauren Bacall
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
— Lauren Bacall
Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.
— Lauren Bacall
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
— Lauren Bacall
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
— Lauren Bacall
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
— Lauren Bacall
Life is not what you expected it to be.
— Lauren Bacall
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
— Lauren Bacall
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
— Lauren Bacall
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
— Lauren Bacall
Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband
— Lauren Bacall
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
— Lauren Bacall
Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
— Lauren Bacall
I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.
— Lauren Bacall
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
— Lauren Bacall
All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
— Lauren Bacall
I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
— Lauren Bacall
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
— Lauren Bacall
I was never my favourite subject.
— Lauren Bacall
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
— Lauren Bacall
If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
— Lauren Bacall
How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
— Lauren Bacall
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
— Lauren Bacall
I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.
— Lauren Bacall