Lauren Bacall Quotes

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

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

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

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.

like this – I’d thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn’t know then how Charlie Einfeld

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.

Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman – trust me!

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

Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.

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

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

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.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

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.

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy... And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.