Quote

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Lauren Bacall

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Adulthood
Expected
Life

More quotes by Lauren Bacall

Image
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
Lauren Bacall
Image
I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
Lauren Bacall
Image
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.
Lauren Bacall
Image
If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.
Lauren Bacall
Image
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall
Image
The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.
Lauren Bacall
Image
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
Lauren Bacall
Image
As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say almost because the high wire is definitely out.
Lauren Bacall
Image
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall
Image
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
Lauren Bacall
Image
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
Image
Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
Lauren Bacall
Image
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.
Lauren Bacall
Image
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.
Lauren Bacall
Image
You 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
Image
I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall
Image
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
Lauren Bacall
Image
I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Lauren Bacall
Image
Well, 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
Image
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
Lauren Bacall