Latest Lauren Bacall Quotes from Interviews

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• I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

  Lauren Bacall

  Choices, World

  "In Acting And In Life, Lauren Bacall 'Loved The Idea Of Adventure'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 15, 2014.

• 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

  Frustration

  "In Acting And In Life, Lauren Bacall 'Loved The Idea Of Adventure'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 15, 2014.

• The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

  Lauren Bacall

  Together, Married, Reason

  "In Acting And In Life, Lauren Bacall 'Loved The Idea Of Adventure'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 15, 2014.

• 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

  Independent, Thinking, Dramatic

  Source: www.wbur.org

• If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.

  Lauren Bacall

  Men, Giving, World

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  First Love, Thinking, Romance

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Morning, Waiting, Hours

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Thinking, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  Lauren Bacall

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com