Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacallwas an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 September 1924
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
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."
I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.