Lauren Bacall Quotes

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Lauren Bacall

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 16, 1924

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

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My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

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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.

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

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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

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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.

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It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

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

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I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

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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.

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I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

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

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I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

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I was never my favourite subject.

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I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

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I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

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