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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? "

Lauren Bacall

You

Never

Man

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Lauren Bacall

Down

Kid

" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "

Lauren Bacall

Lot

Today

" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lauren Bacall

Happy

Man

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "

" 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. "

" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "

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

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

" 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 like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "

" I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short. "