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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. "
Lauren Bacall
Well
Work
Always
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" You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "
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" 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. "
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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
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" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
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" I am essentially a loner. "
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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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "
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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 finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
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" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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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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Confidence
America
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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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Forget
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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! "
Lauren Bacall
Liberal
Know
Democrat
" 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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Movies
Fun
Good
" We live in an age of mediocrity. "
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" I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress. "
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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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" 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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Life
" 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. "
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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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" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "
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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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" 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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" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "
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