The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.

Lauren Bacall

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

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Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!

Lauren Bacall

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Lauren Bacall

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Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

Lauren Bacall

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

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You 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.

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Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

Lauren Bacall

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You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall

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Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Lauren Bacall

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There are 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.

Lauren Bacall

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If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?

Lauren Bacall

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One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

Lauren Bacall

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Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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Growing up takes longer than you think.

Lauren Bacall

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The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

Lauren Bacall

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How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

Lauren Bacall

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

Lauren Bacall

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