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Let's face it: I want it all
just 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

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. — 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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought — 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

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall — E.J. Jackson

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

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. — Marjane Satrapi

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

From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am. — 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

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in. — Lauren Bacall

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth. — Ashley Jensen

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

A planned life is a dead life. — 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

I would love to have read about myself being compared to Lauren Bacall. — Rhea Seehorn

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it. — Lauren Bacall

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. — Lauren Bacall

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. — Lauren Bacall

Acting is a life of rejection. — Lauren Bacall

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it. — 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 studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. — Lauren Bacall

Patience was not my strong point. — Lauren Bacall

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. — Lauren Bacall

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. — Lauren Bacall

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. — Lauren Bacall

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do. — 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

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. — Lauren Bacall

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. — 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

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

No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead — 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

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. — Lauren Bacall

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? — 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

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. — 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

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. — 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

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

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

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. — 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

You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else. — Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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

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

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

People should tell your children what life is all about
it's about work ... — Lauren Bacall

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. — Lauren Bacall

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man. — Lauren Bacall

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. — 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

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

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty. — Lauren Bacall

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband — Lauren Bacall

I was never my favourite subject. — Lauren Bacall

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they? — Lauren Bacall

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is." — 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

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn ... — Ian Shoales

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. — Lauren Bacall