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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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" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "

" 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. "

" 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

Control

" 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. "

" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "

" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "

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

" I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Patience was not my strong point. "

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