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" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Movies

Fun

Good

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Lauren Bacall

Lot

Today

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "

" A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? "

" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "

Lauren Bacall

Happy

Man

" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "

" It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. "

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

" 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

Want

" 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. "

" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "

" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Life

Mother

" 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. "

Lauren Bacall

Hate

Phone

" 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. "

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

" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "