Quotes By Lauren Bacall

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

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

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.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Patience was not my strong point.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

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.

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