Lauren Bacall Quotes
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One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
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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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You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
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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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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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About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.
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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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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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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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All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
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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 am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
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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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"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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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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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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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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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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The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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The early romance was the most romantic experience I have ever had in my life - far surpassing anything I might've dreamed of or imagined, it was quite amazing. When you are young and it's your first love and you are just carried away by it and that's all you can think about.
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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!