Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacallwas an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 September 1924
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
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.
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
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.
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.