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. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 lot, certainly,… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
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 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 a sickness. — 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 I've done.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
![“Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.” quote by Lauren Bacall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f0/lauren-bacall-2297_ass_everything-in-this-country-the-us-has-go_314596.jpg)
