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Lauren Bacall
American
Actress
Born:
Sep 16
,
1924
Died:
Aug 12
,
2014
Life
Me
People
Think
Woman
You
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall
Motivational
I Am
Will
Has-Been
Am
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
Lauren Bacall
You
Man
Woman
Complete
Find
Days
Without
Real
Real Man
Where
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Lauren Bacall
Life
You
Rise Above
Bad Things
Bad
Rise
Above
Learn
Lot
Going
Happen
Your
Keep
Keep Going
Things
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
Lauren Bacall
Stupidity
Favourite
Deal
Cannot
Thing
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
Life
You
Age
Face
Think
Proud
Should
Your
Whole
Shows
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
Lauren Bacall
Life
Great
You
Behavior
Sickness
Not Talking
Think
Unacceptable
Kind
About
Absolutely
Cruise
Talk
Vulgar
Talking
Private
His
Private Life
Sell
Shocking
Commercially
Anything
Inappropriate
Use
Your
Whole
Tom
Tom Cruise
Actor
Great Actor
I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
Lauren Bacall
You
Word
Liberal
Total
Only
Fair
Know
Democrat
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall
Health
Pay
Call
Content
Rent
Friends
Figure
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall
You
Man
Matter
Healthy
Stay
Outsider
He
Territory
How
How Much
Private
His
Close
Loves
Much
Illness
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Lauren Bacall
Past
Nothing
Legends
Present
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
Lauren Bacall
Success
Love
Time
You
First
Feeling
Young
Everything
Never
First Love
First Time
Very
Same
Going
Anything
Happens
Again
Your
Token
Lucky
Second
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall
You
Enough
Worrying
About
Get
Going
Happen
Happening
Now
Start
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
Lauren Bacall
Would
Could
Part
Period
Era
Been
Any
Loved
If I Could
Lived
Actress
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
Lauren Bacall
Love
You
Love Story
Live
Both
Maintain
Spotlight
Famous
Story
Hard
I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
Lauren Bacall
Life
Hope
Human Being
Personality
Thought
Made
Way
Hopefully
Someone
Something
Along
Well
Contribution
Human
Just
Being
Showbiz
Who
Lived
Actress
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall
Wish
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Would
Sinatra
Sing
Up
Just
Shut
Shut Up
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall
Accident
Profession
Stardom
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Lauren Bacall
Life
Unacceptable
Absolutely
Vulgar
Private
Private Life
Sell
Commercially
Anything
Inappropriate
Use
Your
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
Lauren Bacall
You
Stage
Think
Dream
Because
Anyway
Place
Original
Actor
Belongs
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
Lauren Bacall
Good
Great
You
Director
Wonderful
Finished
Sense
Medium
Months
Great Fun
See
Finished Product
Never
Like
Know
Liked
Well
Because
How
Till
Get
Going
Six
After
Whether
Movies
Them
Really
Product
Fun
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
Lauren Bacall
Myself
Analyze
Kind
Fact
Never
Been
Very
Childhood
Much
Even
Actual
I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.
Lauren Bacall
Myself
Me
Joy
Waves
Way
Beside
Adored
He
Von
Nobody
Wanted
Breaking
Worked
Works
Ever
I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.
Lauren Bacall
Work
Family
Money
Girl
Live
Believe
Society
Marry
Brought
Never
No-One
Like
Parties
Always
Go
Balls
Up
Wanted
Social
Lived
Career
Set
I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.
Lauren Bacall
Life
Joke
Believe
Way
Suppose
Times
Done
Short
Anyway
Ridiculous
Lived
Things
I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
Lauren Bacall
Entourage
Fact
In Fact
Help
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall
Me
Man
Be Happy
Happy
Dinner
Enough
Find
Interesting
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