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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. "
Lauren Bacall
Look
Love
People
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" We live in an age of mediocrity. "
Lauren Bacall
Live
Age
Mediocrity
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Treat
You
Think
" I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "
Lauren Bacall
Work
More
Learning
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Life
Hope
Thought
" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
Lauren Bacall
Entourage
Fact
Help
" 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
Me
Kid
" 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
" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
Lauren Bacall
Your
Life
Working
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Part
Lived
Loved
" I was never my favourite subject. "
Lauren Bacall
Favourite
Never
Subject
" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "
Lauren Bacall
Though
Face
Look
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
You
Matter
Healthy
" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "
Lauren Bacall
Accident
Stardom
Profession
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Business
California
Financial
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Movies
Fun
Good
" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "
Lauren Bacall
People
Me
Control
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
People
Always
Hair
" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
Lauren Bacall
Finally
Came
Felt
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Confidence
America
You
" 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? "
Lauren Bacall
You
Never
Man
" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "
Lauren Bacall
Has-Been
I Am
Motivational
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Good
Choices
Regret
" 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
Go
Career
" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "
Lauren Bacall
Years
Thought
Never
" I am essentially a loner. "
Lauren Bacall
I Am
Am
Essentially
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Life
Way
Short
" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "
Lauren Bacall
Stupidity
Deal
Favourite
" 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
Me
" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "
Lauren Bacall
Always
Dance
Dancing
" You can't always be a leading lady. "
Lauren Bacall
Always
Leading
You