229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman – trust me!

If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.