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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.
Lauren Bacall -
I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Lauren Bacall
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I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.
Lauren Bacall -
He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.
Lauren Bacall -
The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall -
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall
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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.
Lauren Bacall -
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall -
All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall
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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.
Lauren Bacall -
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom.
Lauren Bacall -
One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Lauren Bacall -
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
Lauren Bacall -
"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."
Lauren Bacall
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As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
Lauren Bacall -
Life is not what you expected it to be.
Lauren Bacall -
How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
Lauren Bacall -
No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
Lauren Bacall