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" 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. "

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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

" 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. "

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" 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. "

" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "

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

" 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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "

" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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

Man

Think

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Time

Want