American - Actress | September 16, 1924 - August 12, 2014
For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
Lauren Bacall
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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.
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I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
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It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
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It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
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Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
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I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
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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.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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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.
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We live in an age of mediocrity.
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