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" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "
Lauren Bacall
Happy
Me
Man
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" Patience was not my strong point. "
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" There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. "
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" I am essentially a loner. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
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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've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "
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" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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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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" The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? "
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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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" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "
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" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "
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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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" It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. "
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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. "
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People
Always
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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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" 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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" 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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" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "
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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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" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "
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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 don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "
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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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People
" 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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" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "
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