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Lauren Bacall
American
Actress
About the author
I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Life
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Imagination
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Publicity
#Party
#Divorce
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Life
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Life
#Study
Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Profession
#Accident
They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Want
#Time
#God
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 my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Beginning
#Nerves
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Talking
#Actor
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Now
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Will
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Thinking
#Man
#Husband
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Friends
#Health
I am essentially a loner.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Man
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Man
#Woman
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 are healthy.
Lauren Bacall,
American
Actress
#Man
#Illness