Lauren Bacall Quotes

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

Lauren Bacall

• Imagination
• Actress
• Stamina
• Masochism

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• People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Control
  • Win
  • Leader

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Today

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Character
  • Down
  • Within

• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • American
  • Community

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • More
  • Cosmic
  • Earthly

• The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Up
  • Small
  • Growing

• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • School
  • High
  • Words

• For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

  

  John le Carre
  • Political

• It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.

  

  Efren Ramirez
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Imagination
  • Actress
  • Stamina