Lauren Bacall

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

— Lauren Bacall

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

— Lauren Bacall

You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.

— Lauren Bacall

She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.

— Lauren Bacall

Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.

— Lauren Bacall

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.

— Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

— Lauren Bacall

The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

— Lauren Bacall

I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks... 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.

— Lauren Bacall

BACALL: "I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it. Even though..."

— Lauren Bacall

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a — I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him — I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

— Lauren Bacall

Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.

— Lauren Bacall

A planned life is a dead life.

— Lauren Bacall

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

— Lauren Bacall

I went to a sneak preview... I was sort of stunned by it, because you don't realize what you've done. I never knew what was going to happen, but they knew. Warners knew, and Howard knew.

— Lauren Bacall

...badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.

— Lauren Bacall

That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She [Kelly] got the prince [Rainier], I got the part.'

— Lauren Bacall

He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.

— Lauren Bacall

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

— Lauren Bacall

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.

— Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

— Lauren Bacall

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

— Lauren Bacall

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

— Lauren Bacall

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

— Lauren Bacall