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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
Lauren Bacall
Study
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Looking
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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 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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all. "
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" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "
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" 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. "
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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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" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "
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" Acting is a life of rejection. "
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" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "
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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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Always
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" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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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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" 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. "
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Sickness
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" 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. "
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" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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Sedentary
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" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
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" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
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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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" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "
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" 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. "
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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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" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "
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" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "
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" 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. "
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" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "
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