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" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "
Lauren Bacall
Woman
Kid
Film
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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 studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "
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" Patience was not my strong point. "
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" I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "
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" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "
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" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "
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" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
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" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "
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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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" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "
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" We live in an age of mediocrity. "
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" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "
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" I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. "
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" 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. "
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Financial
" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "
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" In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. "
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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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