Famous Lauren Bacall Quotes
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
Source: Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005)
“It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.”
On TCM with Robert Osborne
Private Screenings interview (2005)
On Tom Cruise, Time magazine (8 August 2005)
Lauren Bacall Quotes about life
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
As quoted in The Daily Telegraph (2 March 1988)
Larry King interview (2005)
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.”
As quoted in The Daily Mail (1 November 1990)
Lauren Bacall Quotes about thinking
On being quoted in 2004 as saying about Nicole Kidman: "She's not a legend. She's a beginner..."
"She's not a legend," Bacall said. "She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. … You have to be older."
Larry King interview (2005)
Larry King interview (2005)
Larry King interview (2005)
Context: The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
Lauren Bacall Quotes
“Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.”
Speaking of Frank Sinatra
Larry King interview (2005)
“You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with.”
Interview of 1996, quoted in "Lauren Bacall Dies at 89; in a Bygone Hollywood, She Purred Every Word" by Enid Nemy, in The New York Times (12 August 2014) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/movies/lauren-bacall-sultry-movie-star-dies-at-89.html?_r=1
Context: You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
Source: The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
Hosting a Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, as quoted in The New York Times (16 January 1985)
“…badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.”
On Harry S. Truman's piano playing
Private Screenings interview (2005)
Interview at Venice Film Festival (8 September 2004)
On her role in To Have and Have Not (1944)
Private Screenings interview (2005)
As quoted in numerous reports of a response she made to a question by Jenni Falconer during joint interview sessions http://film.guardian.co.uk/venice/story/0,15051,1300356,00.html with Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival (8 September 2004) She, Kidman and others have indicated that the remarks were inaccurately quoted and taken out of context. (see also the Larry King interview)
Larry King interview (2005)
“He was… a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.”
On former fiancé Frank Sinatra
Private Screenings interview (2005)
On her role in Designing Women (1957)
Private Screenings interview (2005)
