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" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "
Lauren Bacall
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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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" 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 don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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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. "
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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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" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "
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" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "
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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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" 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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" Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. "
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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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" It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. "
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" Patience was not my strong point. "
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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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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
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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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" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "
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" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "
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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 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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" I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. 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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" 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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