229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

You can't always be a leading lady.

People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work....

Patience was not my strong point.

We live in an age of mediocrity.