Lauren Bacall Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We live in an age of mediocrity.”

“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.”

“Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.”

“I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.”

“I am essentially a loner.”

“Patience was not my strong point.”

“I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. 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.”

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

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

“I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.”