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

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.

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

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.