Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
Lauren Bacall
Fact
Childhood
Kind
Related Quotes:
" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
Lauren Bacall
Entourage
Fact
Help
" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
Lauren Bacall
Your
Life
Working
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Life
Good
Great
" 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
Me
" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "
Lauren Bacall
Lot
TV
Today
" 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
" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
Lauren Bacall
Going
Happen
Now
" 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
" I was never my favourite subject. "
Lauren Bacall
Favourite
Never
Subject
" You can't always be a leading lady. "
Lauren Bacall
Always
Leading
You
" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "
Lauren Bacall
You
Rise
Keep Going
" 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
" 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
" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "
Lauren Bacall
Though
Face
Look
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
You
Saying
Love
" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "
Lauren Bacall
Accident
Stardom
Profession
" It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. "
Lauren Bacall
Seriously
Think
Life
" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
Lauren Bacall
Everyone
Mind
Small
" 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
More
Want
" 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
" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "
Lauren Bacall
Happy
Me
Man
" 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
" 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 wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "
Lauren Bacall
Just
I Wish
Shut Up
" 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 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Look
Head
Steady
" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "
Lauren Bacall
Well
Work
Always
" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
Lauren Bacall
Finally
Came
Felt
" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "
Lauren Bacall
Woman
Kid
Film
" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "
Lauren Bacall
Feel
Need
Men