Lauren Bacall Quotes
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
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I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax... it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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I want to live forever! I want to learn how to fly high!
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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,/ One each of everything as in a show-case/ Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
