Lauren Bacall Quotes

Lauren Bacall Quotes

“A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?”

“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 put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.”

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

“I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.”

“Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.”

“I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.”

“Just looking at him could make me tremble. When he took my hand in his, the feeling caught me in the pit of my stomach–his hand was warm, protecting, and full of love. When he saw me at the beginning of the day and when he called me on the telephone, his first words were always, ‘Hello, Baby.’”

“I was a complete virgin when I met him. He was my mentor, my teacher and the love of my life. I remember every word he ever said to me, but I will never see him again.”

“I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.”

“Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say.”

“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”

“He was... a womaniser; he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.”

“At the time of [Humphery Bogart’s] death, all I wanted, I think, was to believe that my life would continue. Everyone's a survivor. Everyone wants to stay alive. What's the alternative? See, I prefer to prevail."

“I never believed marriage was a lasting institution… I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.”