American - Actress | September 16, 1924 - August 12, 2014
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Lauren Bacall
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There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
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When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
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Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
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A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
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Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
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I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
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God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.
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I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
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In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
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