Quotes from Lauren Bacall

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.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

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

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.

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.

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