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" 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
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" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "
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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 figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "
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" 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. "
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" You can't always be a leading lady. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "
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" 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. "
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" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "
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" I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "
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" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "
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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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