I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then… — 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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around.… — 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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted,… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. — 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
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![“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he…” quote by Lauren Bacall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/lauren-bacall-2297_awake_you-had-to-stay-awake-married-to-him-hum_1653959.jpg)
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