Quotes from Lauren Bacall

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

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

We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink — the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible — the chestnut trees — how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

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

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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...

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

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

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.