Quotes by Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

— Lauren Bacall

Life

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

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

Life

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

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

— Lauren Bacall

Education

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

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

Love

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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.

— Lauren Bacall

Love

You can't always be a leading lady.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

I am essentially a loner.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

— Lauren Bacall

Happiness

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

— Lauren Bacall

Life

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

— Lauren Bacall

Life

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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

— Lauren Bacall

Friendship

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

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.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

We live in an age of mediocrity.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

— Lauren Bacall

Wisdom