Lauren Bacall Quotes

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.

Lauren Bacall

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• Girls
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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Boyfriend

• I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Age
  • Career
  • See

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Real
  • Running
  • Problem

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Small
  • Hair

• I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

  

  LL Cool J
  • School
  • College
  • Mean

• A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • May
  • Power
  • Faith

• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Like
  • Girls
  • Angels

• I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Nice

• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Acting

• I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Girls

• I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Serious
  • Drama
  • Period

• That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Week

• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

  

  Moliere
  • Want
  • Know
  • Desire

• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Science
  • Disease
  • Activity

• [On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Age
  • Man
  • Values

• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Satisfaction
  • True Lover

• Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Actors
  • Girls
  • Photograph