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
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If… — 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
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition… — 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
