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.

Lauren Bacall

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Play
  • Missing
  • Airplane

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Bad
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• 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.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Honor

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Want
  • Proud
  • Body

• When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Circumstances

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • Up

• In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Work
  • Party
  • Actors