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" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "
Lauren Bacall
Feel
Need
Men
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" The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? "
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" I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to. "
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Hate
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Phone
" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "
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Accident
Stardom
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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "
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You
Voice
Either
" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "
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Life
Working
" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "
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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 never my favourite subject. "
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Favourite
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Subject
" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
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Now
" It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. "
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Life
My Life
Who
" Acting is a life of rejection. "
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Life
Acting
Rejection
" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "
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Someone
Time
Star
" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "
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Everyone
Mind
Small
" In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. "
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Party
Fifty
Means
" 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. "
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Movies
Fun
Good
" 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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Forget
Movies
You
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Sit
She
School
" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
Lauren Bacall
Study
Yourself
Looking
" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
Lauren Bacall
Fact
Childhood
Kind
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Lucky
You
Time
" 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. "
Lauren Bacall
Think
Sickness
Life
" I am essentially a loner. "
Lauren Bacall
I Am
Am
Essentially
" You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. "
Lauren Bacall
Past
Yourself
You
" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "
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Always
Dance
Dancing
" Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. "
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Past
Legends
Nothing
" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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Been
Sedentary
Person
" 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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Part
Lived
Loved
" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "
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Years
Thought
Never
" 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. "
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Place
You
Stage
" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "
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Rent
Content
Friends