229 Quotes by Lauren Bacall

Life is not what you expected it to be.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

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

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

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.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.