Quotes By Lauren Bacall

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

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.

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

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

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.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

You can't always be a leading lady.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

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

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

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

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

I am essentially a loner.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

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

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