Lauren Bacall Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.”

“My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.”

“You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.”

“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.”

“I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.”

“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?”

“I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.”

“I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.”

“They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.”

“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.”