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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. "
Lauren Bacall
You
Matter
Healthy
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "
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" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
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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. "
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" I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short. "
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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
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" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "
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" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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" We live in an age of mediocrity. "
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" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "
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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "
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" 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. "
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" I was never my favourite subject. "
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" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "
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