Lauren Bacall Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
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“Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.”
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“Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.”
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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”
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“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.”
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“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”
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“Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”
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“I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.”
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“In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.”
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“Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.”
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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”
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“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
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“I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.”
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“Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.”
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“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.”
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“Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'”
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“God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.”
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“I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.”
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“I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.”
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“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.”
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