Lauren Bacall Quotes

"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
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"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"

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

"I am essentially a loner."

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."

"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."

"How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy."

"I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing."

"They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more."

"And to meet whom did Franklin D Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama."

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."