God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

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.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.

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