Lauren Bacall Quotes

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Lauren Bacall

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 16, 1924

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

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

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

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I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

Lauren Bacall

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

Lauren Bacall

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

Lauren Bacall

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

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

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

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

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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

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall