Lauren Bacall Quotes
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Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!
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The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
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A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
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You can't always be a leading lady.
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No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead.
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I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
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The real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
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Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
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How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
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The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
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Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.
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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.
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Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.
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If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
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The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.
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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.
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If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.
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We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart James Stewart.
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
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Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.
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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
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All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.