Top 167 Quotes & Sayings by Lauren Bacall
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
You can't always be a leading lady.
What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.
The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?
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.
Patience was not my strong point.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
We live in an age of mediocrity.
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.
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
I am essentially a loner.
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
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.
I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
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.
I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
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.
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
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