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)”

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.”

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)

“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.”

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