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| If I'm a legend, I'm dead. Do you want me to be dead? Legends are of the past. Lauren Bacall The star at 82. I have no respect for celebrities, and I object to being called one, so don't try it! I'm an actress, not a celebrity. Lauren Bacall I just don't understand not working. I'm such a ham. I love hiding behind other characters. I find that it gives me freedom. Lauren Bacall I hope Bogie knew how much I loved him, how much he meant to me, how I highly valued him. I've had another life since then, but he was my first love, and you never forget your first love. Lauren Bacall On her co-star Humphrey Bogart, writing in her 1978 autobiography 'By Myself'. I'm lucky to get it! I don't have big choices. Lauren Bacall On her role of Natalie Van Miter in 2007 movie 'The Walker'. It feels better having an escort. I don't have many escorts in my life. But I don't like to enter rooms by myself. Literally. So I understand from that point of view why that exists. It's great to have one person that does not judge you and you can kind of confide in. Lauren Bacall On 2007 movie 'The Walker', which is about a society escort who squires rich Washington wives around town. Sometimes I get very nostalgic because he died very young and he didn't have a chance to see his children grow at all. But on the other hand, because he never aged he's more alive than ever to more generations. He'd have never believed this. Lauren Bacall On her first love Humphrey Bogart. You have to have a way to cope, to get through the rest of your life. You have disappointments, people hurt your feelings, friendships dissolve for no reason… all kinds of weird things can happen in life and you better learn how to deal with it. And the way to deal with it is to laugh at yourself. Lauren Bacall. It's all about money nowadays. There's no accent on quality, on standards, and they don't write parts for women anymore. When I first went into pictures, women absolutely ran the show. Bette Davis practically owned Warner Brothers. She was my favourite. Every time she's on television, I love to watch her work. Lauren Bacall They're all too self-involved, y'know? And they're so unaware of what goes on anywhere else. Lauren Bacall On today's stars, in 2007 interview. She's not a legend. She's a beginner ... She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. ... You have to be older. Lauren Bacall After interviewer described her co-star Nicole Kidman in 2004 movie 'Birth' as a legend. 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 I'm not the public. Lauren Bacall The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a "nice Jewish girl" -- what a burden. Lauren Bacall 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 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 have a built-in antenna. Lauren Bacall I am essentially a loner. Lauren Bacall I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content". Lauren Bacall 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 In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. Lauren Bacall I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. Lauren Bacall 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 Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident. Lauren Bacall When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. Lauren Bacall. 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 feeling of confidence and well-being. Lauren Bacall I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. Lauren Bacall I just have to keep going as long as I can. Lauren Bacall Aged 82, as she works on movie 'Wide Blue Yonder', set in a retirement home. A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days. Lauren Bacall Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives. Lauren Bacall Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. Lauren Bacall You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. Lauren Bacall Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. Lauren Bacall Playing character Slim in 1944 movie 'To Have and Have Not'. I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Lauren Bacall I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing. I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, "I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on". And I thought, "That's right, honey, you did not". That was his concept of what a mother should be. I would hate now [2005] to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster? I'd prefer not to. I am still working, I've never stopped and, while my health holds out, I won't stop. 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 good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking. We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart]. A legend involves the past. I don't like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word "great" stands for something. 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. I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it . . . I'm liberal. The L word! [on Humphrey Bogart] Was he tough? In a word, no. Bogey was truly a gentle soul. [on John Huston] He was about something. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. |
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