Lauren Bacall
Actress
1924-09-16
Quotes by Lauren Bacall
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
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Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
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But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
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But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
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Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
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We live in an age of mediocrity.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
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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.
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
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I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
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When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
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I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.
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Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one getting fifty percent of the publicity.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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