Quotes

“We live in an age of mediocrity.” Lauren Bacall

“You can't always be a leading lady.” Lauren Bacall

“I am essentially a loner.” Lauren Bacall

“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.” Lauren Bacall

“Patience was not my strong point.” Lauren Bacall

“They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.” Lauren Bacall

“I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.” Lauren Bacall

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

“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.” Lauren Bacall

“In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.” Lauren Bacall

“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.” Lauren Bacall

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

“What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?” Lauren Bacall

“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.” Lauren Bacall

“I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.” Lauren Bacall

“I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.” Lauren Bacall

“Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.” Lauren Bacall

“The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.” Chris Pratt

“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!” Chris Pratt

“You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.” Chris Pratt

“I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.” Chris Pratt

“I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.” Chris Pratt

“I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.” Chris Pratt

“I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.” Chris Pratt

“Just be comfortable with who you are.” Chris Pratt

“When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.” Chris Pratt

“With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.” Chris Pratt

“A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.” Chris Pratt

“I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.” Chris Pratt

“As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.” Chris Pratt