229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: ‘Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!’

I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.

No, I’m afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I’d end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I’ll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I’ll be brave.

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

The madmen seem to live on forever, don’t they?

You can’t always be a leading lady.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, ‘I don’t ever remember seeing you with an apron on.’ And I thought, that’s right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

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

Howard Hawks said he’d like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, “Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.”