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."
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

Acting is a life of rejection.

Lauren Bacall

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

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 ...

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Lauren Bacall

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Lauren Bacall

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.

Lauren Bacall

Patience was not my strong point.

Lauren Bacall

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