Quotes by Lauren Bacall

About Lauren Bacall:

Lauren Bacall was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest actress of the 20th century by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Lauren Bacall

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

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

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I was never my favourite subject.

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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.

Lauren Bacall

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

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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 wan...

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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 ...

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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 figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

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I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

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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 ...

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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 si...

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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.

Lauren Bacall

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

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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 finishe...

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLauren Bacall
  • DescriptionAmerican actress, model
  • AliasesBetty Joan Perske
  • BornSeptember 16, 1924
  • DiedAugust 12, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Writer; Model
  • AwardsAcademy Honorary Award; Donostia Award; National Book Award