Lauren Bacall Quotes

No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

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.

You can't always be a leading lady.

About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.

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.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.

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

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

Growing up takes longer than you think.

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.

Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.

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

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?