Quotes by Lauren Bacall

• I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
• I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
• I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
• Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
• In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
• It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
• Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
• Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
• 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.
• 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.
• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
• You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
• I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
• I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
• I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
• I am essentially a loner.
• Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
• A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.