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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. "
Lauren Bacall
Me
Man
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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" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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" 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 am not a has-been. I am a will be. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. "
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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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Me
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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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" 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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Life
Way
Short
" 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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Going
Happen
Now
" 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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Time
Myself
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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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People
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Control
" I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "
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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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Never
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" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" We live in an age of mediocrity. "
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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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" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "
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Press
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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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