Lauren Bacall Quotes

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You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

Lauren Bacall
One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

Lauren Bacall
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 unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Lauren Bacall
I went to a sneak preview... I was sort of stunned by it, because you don't realize what you've done. I never knew what was going to happen, but they knew. Warners knew, and Howard knew.

Lauren Bacall
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

Lauren Bacall
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

Lauren Bacall
BACALL: "I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it. Even though..."

Lauren Bacall
You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Lauren Bacall
How strange — a daughter watching the mother who had given her life lose her own. Is that what it's all about?

Lauren Bacall