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" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "
Lauren Bacall
Going
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Now
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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 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "
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" 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. "
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" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "
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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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" 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'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "
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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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" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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Help
" There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. "
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" I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "
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" 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. "
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School
" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "
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" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "
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Story
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" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "
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Big
Alone
Actor
" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "
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Down
Me
Kid
" 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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Movies
You
" 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. "
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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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" 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 Am
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" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "
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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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Way
Short
" I am essentially a loner. "
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Am
Essentially
" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "
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Voice
Either
" 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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