I Am Essentially A Loner.

Acting Is A Life Of Rejection.

You Had To Stay Awake Married To Him [humphrey Bogart]. Every Time I Thought I Could Relax And Do Everything I Wanted, He'd Buck. There Was No Way To Predict His Reactions, No Matter How Well I Knew Him. As He'd Said Before Our Wedding, He Expected To Be Happily Married And Stay That Way, But He Never Expected To Settle Down. He Liked Keeping People Off Balance. He Was Good For Me -- I Could Never Be Quite Sure What He Would Do.

Very Few People Want To Hear The Truth. Bogie Was Like That, My Mother Was Like That, And I'm Like That. I Believe In The Truth, And I Believe In Saying What You Think. Why Not? Do You Have To Go Around Whispering All The Time Or Playing A Game With People? I Just Don't Believe In That. So I'm Not The Most Adored Person On The Face Of The Earth.

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.

When You Talk About A Great Actor, You're Not Talking About Tom Cruise. His Whole Behavior Is So Shocking. It's Inappropriate And Vulgar And Absolutely Unacceptable To Use Your Private Life To Sell Anything Commercially, But I Think It's Kind Of A Sickness.