The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

Patience was not my strong point.

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

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.