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" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

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" 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

" It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

" I was never my favourite subject. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't always be a leading lady. "

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

" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Lauren Bacall

Happy

Man

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

You

Career

" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "

Lauren Bacall

People

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a life of rejection. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket. "