He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, 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.

The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

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.

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

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.