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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.

~Lauren Bacall

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It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

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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.

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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.

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All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.

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The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

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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.

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

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

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 16th, 1924

Died: August 12th, 2014

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