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I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

Lauren Bacall

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Lauren Bacall
Age: 89 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 16
Died: 2014
Died: August 12
Film Actor
Film Actress
Model
Singer
Spokesperson
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Betty Joan Perske
Betty Perske
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I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
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the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
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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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After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
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The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
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Naïveté, thy name is me.
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One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
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