Top 15 Lauren Bacall Quotes

American actress (1924–2014)

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Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; 16 September 1924 - 12 August 2014) was an American film and stage actress. She was the wife of Humphrey Bogart until his death, and later married Jason Robards.

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Birth Name: Betty Joan Perske

Alternative Names: Betty Perske • Loren Beykoll

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"If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."

(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

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

I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.

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

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

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

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

I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that. So I’m not the most adored person on the face of the earth. You have to know this. There are a lot of people who don’t like me at all, I’m very sure of that. But I wasn’t put on earth to be liked. I have my own reasons for being and my own sense of what is important and what isn’t, and I’m not going to change that.

Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy.

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

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.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

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.