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

"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)

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