229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

There are 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.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

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.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

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.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.