Lauren Bacall Quotes

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

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.

Stop for a moment and ponder on the silliness of it. 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.

I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks... he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn’t have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn’t realize every quality of Bogie’s on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years

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.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought

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.

From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.

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

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.