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Lauren Bacall
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“How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy... And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hosting a Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, as quoted in The New York Times (January 10, 1985)
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Daily Telegraph (March 2, 1988)
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Daily Mail (November 1, 1990) and cited in "Lauren Bacall: 14 of her best quotes", The Guardian (August 13, 2014)
“You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview of 1996, quoted in "Lauren Bacall Dies at 89; in a Bygone Hollywood, She Purred Every Word" by Enid Nemy, in The New York Times (August 12, 2014)
“She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in numerous reports of a response she made to a question by Jenni Falconer during joint interview sessions with Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival (September 8, 2004) She, Kidman and others have indicat…
“Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview at Venice Film Festival (September 8, 2004)
“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Tom Cruise, Time magazine (August 8, 2005)
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005); also widely misquoted as "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
“The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks... he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bacall: I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it. Even though...”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A planned life is a dead life.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went to a sneak preview... I was sort of stunned by it, because you don't realize what you've done. I never knew what was going to happen, but they knew. Warners knew, and Howard knew.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her role in To Have and Have Not (1944)
“[B]adly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, "I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me". She [Kelly] got the prince [Rainier], I got the part.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her role in Designing Women (1957)
“He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love Nicole. Nicole and I happen to be very great friends. Besides that, the press never get it straight. They do not print what you say... We were in Venice for Birth at the Venice Film Festival. And you know when you have a day when you go from one room to another with the roundtables with about five journalists sitting around at each table throwing questions at you all the time. So in one of these rooms, I'm sitting there. And one of the journalists said, you're an icon and Nicole Kidman's an icon and what do you think about that? And I said, why do you have to burden her with the category? She's a young woman. She's got her whole career ahead of her. Why does she have to be pegged as an icon or as anything? Let her enjoy her time. Don't, you know, suddenly put her in a slot. And that was all I said. The word "legend" never came up. It was "icon.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being quoted in 2004 as saying about Nicole Kidman: "She's not a legend. She's a beginner...