Lauren Bacall: Want

Lauren Bacall was American actress, model. Explore interesting quotes on want.

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“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)”

Lauren Bacall

Source: The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart

“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks… he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”

Lauren Bacall

Larry King interview (2005)

“He was… a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.”

Lauren Bacall

On former fiancé Frank Sinatra
Private Screenings interview (2005)

“That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She [Kelly] got the prince [Rainier], I got the part.”

Lauren Bacall

On her role in Designing Women (1957)
Private Screenings interview (2005)

Forgiveness , Parting