229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

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

Naïveté, thy name is me.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.