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Quotes by Lauren Bacall

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
– Lauren Bacall
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
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
– Lauren Bacall
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.
– Lauren Bacall
I am essentially a loner.
– Lauren Bacall
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
– Lauren Bacall
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
– Lauren Bacall
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
– Lauren Bacall
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
– Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
– Lauren Bacall
They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
– Lauren Bacall
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
– Lauren Bacall
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.
– Lauren Bacall
We live in an age of mediocrity.
– Lauren Bacall
Patience was not my strong point.
– Lauren Bacall
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
– Lauren Bacall
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
– Lauren Bacall
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
– Lauren Bacall