Lauren Bacall Quotes

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall

Age, Life, Proud

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
Lauren Bacall

Woman, Real, Find

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.
Lauren Bacall

Matter, Healthy, Stay

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall

Highest, Fly, Kite

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall

Happen, Enough, Start

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall

Health, Friends, Call

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall

Life, Yourself, Study

I am essentially a loner.
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

Marriage, Good, Career

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

Used, Beginning, Head

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall

Divorce, Getting, Means

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Lauren Bacall

Past, Nothing, Present

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall

Happy, Find, Enough

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Lauren Bacall

Felt, Stage, Finally

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

Love, Saying, Problem

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

Love, Success, Time

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.
Lauren Bacall

Today, Acting, Consider

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

Business, Smart, Made

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

Husband, Thinking, Around

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

Mother, Saying, Thought

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall

Wish, Sing, Shut

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

Hate, Married, Fall

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

Word, Fair, Liberal

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall

Person, Active, Sedentary

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Nationality: American

Born: September 16, 1924

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