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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. "
Lauren Bacall
Me
People
Think
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" I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help. "
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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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" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "
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" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "
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" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "
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" 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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" 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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" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "
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" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "
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" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "
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Proud
" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "
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" 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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Look
Love
People
" 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. "
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People
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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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Mother
" I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "
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Work
More
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" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "
Lauren Bacall
Brilliant
Press
God
" 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? "
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You
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Man
" 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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Mother
Honey
Me
" 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. "
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Movies
Fun
Good
" 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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Life
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" 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. "
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Nobody
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" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "
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Time
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" I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. "
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Reading
Dream
Loved
" 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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" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "
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Shut Up
" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "
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Favourite
" 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. "
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Sickness
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" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "
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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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" 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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