I Am Not A Has-been. I Am

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.

Hollywood Is The Only Place In The World Where An Amicable Divorce Means Each One Gets Fifty Percent Of The Publicity.

Standing Still Is The Fastest Way Of Moving Backwards In A Rapidly Changing World.

My Mother Was The Greatest Example To Me Of Anyone I've Ever Known. She Didn't Have An Easy Life. I Adored Her. She Worked Hard All Her Life, And She Was The One Who Set My Values. She Was Quite An Amazing Woman, Although She Wasn't Tough At All.

About Working With Marilyn Monroe.we Got Along Very Well. My Only Complaint About Her Was That She Was Late All The Time, But She Was Late Out Of Fear As Much As Anything Else, But It Was Hard To Sit Around And Wait. She Was Usually An Hour Or Two Late Every Morning.