Lauren Bacall Quotes
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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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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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All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
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I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
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I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.
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Everything in this country the US has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.
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My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
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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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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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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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I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.
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I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
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"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.
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The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
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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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When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.
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How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
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If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.