Lauren Bacall Quotes

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Lauren Bacall

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 16, 1924

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Lauren Bacall

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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

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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.

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I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

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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.

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I am essentially a loner.

Lauren Bacall

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.

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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.

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Acting is a life of rejection.

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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Lauren Bacall

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.

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What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

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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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

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