Lauren Bacall Quotes - Page 3

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• You can't always be a leading lady.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Leading Ladies

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• You had to stay awake married to him [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.

  Lauren Bacall

  People, Balance, Relax

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• Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

  Lauren Bacall

  Character, Men, Honor

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• Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Senior, Believe, Memorable

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• I am essentially a loner.

  Lauren Bacall

  Loner

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• He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Would Be, Brilliant

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• The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

  Lauren Bacall

  Hollywood, Film, Mediums

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• Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

  Lauren Bacall

  Past, Instant, Dies

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• When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

  Lauren Bacall

  America, Giving, Feelings

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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

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Mean, Earth

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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, People, Situation

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• 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

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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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Party, Memorable, Thinking

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• I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

  Lauren Bacall

  Crazy, Believe, Gambling

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• [Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

  Lauren Bacall

  Stronger, Attractive, Accents

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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

  Mother, Example, Tough

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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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Nerves, Looks, Way

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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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Eyebrows, People, Teeth

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• When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

  Lauren Bacall

  First Love, Feelings, Lucky

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• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. 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. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Son, Thinking

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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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Imagination, Actors

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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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Blow, Together, Want

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• It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Use, Inappropriate

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!

  Lauren Bacall

  Mistake, Past, Television

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