Lauren Bacall Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.”

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

“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 studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.”

“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.”

“My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.”

“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.”

“Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.”

“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.”

“All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.”