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" All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that. "

Lauren Bacall

People

Always

Hair

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Lauren Bacall

People

Think

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

" 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. "

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Hate

Phone

" 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. "

" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "

" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "

Lauren Bacall

People

Control

" It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. "

" 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

Time

Want

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "

" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "

" I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "

" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "

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

" 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. "

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

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

Lauren Bacall

Happy

Man

" I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always. "

" 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

Honey

" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "

" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "