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Lauren Bacall Inspirational Quotes (74)

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
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The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
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In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.
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About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.
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The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
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I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
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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.
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
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I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
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How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
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When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.
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I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.
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I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.
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Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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A planned life is a dead life.
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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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