I called my business manager in California and said, ‘Sell all of my stock’ – what little of it I had – and it’s the only smart financial move I ever made.
Lauren Bacall
I don’t consider myself a great actress. I’m just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I’m good, and I’ve learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I’ve been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That’s life.
Lauren Bacall
I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
Lauren Bacall
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ‘content.’
Lauren Bacall
I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Lauren Bacall
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.
Lauren Bacall
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.
Lauren Bacall
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, ‘I don’t ever remember seeing you with an apron on.’ And I thought, that’s right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
Lauren Bacall
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
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
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.
Lauren Bacall
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me… My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
Lauren Bacall
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall
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.
Lauren Bacall
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s – I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
Lauren Bacall