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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. "

Lauren Bacall

Treat

You

Think

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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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Honey

" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "

" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "

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

" Acting is a life of rejection. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. "

" 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. "

" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "

" 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 studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "

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

" I was never my favourite subject. "

" 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? "

" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "

" It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. "

" 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. "

" I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "

Lauren Bacall

Man

Think

" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

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

" 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. "

" I am essentially a loner. "

Lauren Bacall

I Am

Essentially

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

" 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. "