The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been… — 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
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
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect… — 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… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
“I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering… — 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
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
“And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That’s part of our business. And that too… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — 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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