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

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

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.

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.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.