After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

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.

A planned life is a dead life.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

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

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

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?