Quotes from Lauren Bacall

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a -- I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him -- I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

A Man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he love you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

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.

Patience was not my strong point.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

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.

If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not )

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

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

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

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.

Let's face it: I want it all--just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong.