“Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Sophie, my dog, is the high in the highlights of my life. Even through rain, snow, ice, and general laziness, she is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a -… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The early romance was the most romantic experience I have ever had in my life - far surpassing anything I might've dreamed… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
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,… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
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. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
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.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time,… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share
