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
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
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.
The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a "nice Jewish girl" -- what a burden!
People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work....
A planned life is a dead life.
Life is not what you expected it to be.
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
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.
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 was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.