I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. Lauren Bacall More Quotes by Lauren Bacall More Quotes From Lauren Bacall The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great. Lauren Bacall mediums hollywood film Acting is a life of rejection. Lauren Bacall rejection acting The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated. Lauren Bacall married reason together The early romance was the most romantic experience I have ever had in my life - far surpassing anything I might've dreamed of or imagined, it was quite amazing. When you are young and it's your first love and you are just carried away by it and that's all you can think about. Lauren Bacall romance first-love thinking 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. Lauren Bacall hours waiting morning 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. Lauren Bacall dramatic independent thinking I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world. Lauren Bacall choices world My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all. Lauren Bacall tough example mother A planned life is a dead life. Lauren Bacall life-is 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. Lauren Bacall girl hair thinking Naïveté, thy name is me. Lauren Bacall vets names After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned. Lauren Bacall age memorable people the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking. Lauren Bacall stakes theater real The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they? Lauren Bacall madmen seems forever 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. Lauren Bacall party memorable thinking Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity. Lauren Bacall divorce hollywood mean I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had. Lauren Bacall hollywood twenties missing No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave. Lauren Bacall nerves brave memorable Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive. Lauren Bacall one-day alive feelings I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. Lauren Bacall husband inspirational men