I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing. Lauren Bacall More Quotes by Lauren Bacall More Quotes From Lauren Bacall Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. Lauren Bacall accidents profession stardom The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. Lauren Bacall moral things-in-life order I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions. Lauren Bacall space suicide years If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk. Lauren Bacall one-thing mysterious done Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. Lauren Bacall legends past Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. Lauren Bacall memorable men interesting You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do. Lauren Bacall relax balance people I am essentially a loner. Lauren Bacall loner We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart]. Lauren Bacall mediocrity age Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Lauren Bacall mirrors humility memorable You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. Lauren Bacall bad-day enough worry It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it. Lauren Bacall old-movie ifs havens I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. Lauren Bacall frank shut-up wish No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it. Lauren Bacall romance written 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 use talking thinking 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... Lauren Bacall march grants art 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. Lauren Bacall memorable running country Well, 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 senior memorable believe I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. Lauren Bacall felt knows people 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 Lauren Bacall earth memorable mean
