Words matter. These are the best Lauren Bacall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives – you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.
You can’t always be a leading lady.
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 no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I’d prefer not to.
I suppose there are times when I can’t believe that I’ve lived the way that I have and done the things that I’ve done. Life’s a joke anyway. It’s all ridiculous. It’s all so short.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.
I adored ‘Breaking The Waves,’ so when Lars von Trier wanted me in ‘Dogville,’ I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I’ve ever worked with works.
I was never my favourite subject.
I don’t consider myself a great actress. I’m just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I’m good, and I’ve learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I’ve been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That’s life.
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s – I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
Acting is a life of rejection.
I’m a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.
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.
It’s just a fact of life that I don’t think I’ve ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don’t know why.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.
What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
God – if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.
You can’t acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don’t.
You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.
I called my business manager in California and said, ‘Sell all of my stock’ – what little of it I had – and it’s the only smart financial move I ever made.
I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man – a real man – these days?
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they’re good. But you never get to see them till six months after they’re finished. So you never get a sense of whether they’re really well liked or how good they are. And you don’t really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it’s a director’s medium.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
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 finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting.
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply.
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 again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
