Lauren Bacall Quotes

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Lauren Bacall

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 16, 1924

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Lauren Bacall

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?

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

Lauren Bacall

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

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

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

Lauren Bacall

You can't always be a leading lady.

Lauren Bacall

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

Lauren Bacall

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

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

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

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

Patience was not my strong point.

Lauren Bacall