Lauren Bacall Quotes

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• I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
• You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
• A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You…
• Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
• I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
• I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
• When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling…
• I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
• I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a…
• It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
• I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to…
• In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
• I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
• Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
• I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be…
• When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous…
• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely…
• You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what…
• Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
• I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

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