I’m a total Democrat. I’m anti-Republican. And it’s only fair that you know it… I’m liberal. The L word!
Lauren Bacall
In actual fact, I’ve never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
Lauren Bacall
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
Lauren Bacall
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It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they’re with younger girls or unknown girls.
Lauren Bacall
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they’re good. But you never get to see them till six months after they’re finished. So you never get a sense of whether they’re really well liked or how good they are. And you don’t really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it’s a director’s medium.
Lauren Bacall
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
Patience was not my strong point.
Lauren Bacall
Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.
Lauren Bacall
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
Lauren Bacall
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor’s place because actors, it belongs to you.
Lauren Bacall
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
Lauren Bacall
They’re guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we’ve done that, been there, and we don’t want to do that any more.
Lauren Bacall
We live in an age of mediocrity.
Lauren Bacall
What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
Lauren Bacall
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who’s ill.
Lauren Bacall
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
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
When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. 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
You can’t always be a leading lady.
Lauren Bacall
You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.
Lauren Bacall
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.
Lauren Bacall
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply.
Lauren Bacall
Who is Lauren Bacall?
Lauren Bacall was an actress from the United States. The American Film Institute designated her the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 for her contribution to the Golden Age of cinema.