229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting.

A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man – a real man – these days?

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

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.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.

I think I’m damn lucky. I’m lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven’t ended up in jail, that they’re all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

Always I’m feeling, ‘You’re never going to work again.’ That’s going to happen one day, but I hope I’m not alive.

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

They think actors are freaks – that we’re a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.