Lauren Bacall - Life Quotes

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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall
The purity of Jewish upbringing — the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' — what a burden.

Lauren Bacall
The real stakes in the theater are high — they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Lauren Bacall
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
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.

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

Lauren Bacall
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

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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 know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him — I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Lauren Bacall