Lauren Bacall Quotes
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
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I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
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You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!
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I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
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Fautrier's exhibition in Paris 1945 made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.
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They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
