A biography for Lauren Bacallhasn’t been written yet.
“אני חושבת שאם אני בריאה, מסוגלת לשלם את שכר הדירה ולהיפגש עם ידידיי, אני מרוצה.”
“ישנם גברים שכל מה שמעניין אותם הם יחסי מין – דבר שאין לי בו כל עניין; אלוהים יודע שכבר עשינו זאת, ואין אנו רוצים בכך עוד.”
“להיות כוכב אין זה מקצוע, אלא מקרה.”
“הדמיון מהווה את העפיפון הגבוה ביותר של האדם.”
“אינני טיפוס הקופא על שמריו; תמיד הייתי פעילה.”
“אני חושבת כי פנינו משקפים את חיינו, וכי עלינו להיות גאים בכך.”
“אינני נמנית עם אלה שעבר זמנם, אלא עם אלה שזמנם עדיין לפניהם.”
“ביסודו של דבר, אני אדם בודד.”
“מצאו נא לי גבר שיהיה לי בו עניין עד כי נוכל לסעוד יחדיו, ואהיה מאושרת.”
“אישה איננה מושלמת ללא גבר, אך היכן ניתן למצוא גבר אמיתי בימינו אלה?”
“Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?”
“Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.”
“When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.”