229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

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."

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

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