229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

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

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

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

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

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.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.