Quotes from Lauren Bacall

People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

I am essentially a loner.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

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

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.