Acting Is A Life Of Rejection.

If There Was One Thing I Had Never Been, It Was Mysterious, And If There Was One Thing I Had Never Done, It Was Not Talk.

He Named Me. He Liked The Sound Of It. And I Said, Well, All Right. I Felt A Little Odd About It. I Don't Understand All That Name Changing Business Anyway... No, He Felt That Lauren Bacall Was Better Sounding Than Betty Bacall. He Had A Vision Of His Own. He Was A Svengali. He Wanted To Mold Me. He Wanted To Control Me. And He Did Until Mr. Bogart Got Involved.

Howard Hawks Said He'd Like To Put Me In A Film With Cary Grant Or Humphrey Bogart. I Thought, "cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

Always I'm Feeling, 'you're Never Going To Work Again.' That's Going To Happen One Day, But I Hope I'm Not Alive.

Men Need To Feel Important. They Feel Better When They're With Younger Girls Or Unknown Girls.