Lauren Bacall Quotes - Page 5

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

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.

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

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.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

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.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

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.

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

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.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

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.