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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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" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Sit

She

School

" 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. "

" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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? "

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Hate

Phone

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Down

Kid

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Time

Myself

" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Life

Mother

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "

" I was never my favourite subject. "

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "

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

" 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

" 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. "