I Like To Work With Really Good

Find Me A Man Who's Interesting Enough To Have Dinner With And I'll Be Happy.

I Don't Think Being The Only Child Of A Single Parent Helped. I Was Always A Little Unsteady In My Self-belief. Then There Was The Jewish Thing. I Love Being Jewish, I Have No Problem With It At All. But It Did Become Like A Scar, With All These People Saying You Don't Look It.

Well, The People I've Known I Must Say Are Extraordinary. When I Think About Some Of Them, I Can't Believe That I Knew Them All. And I Think The Reason I Knew Most Of Them At The Beginning Was Because They Were Of Bogie's Generation, 25 Years My Senior, Not Mine. But They Were The Most Talented People Of All.

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.

Actors Today Go Into Tv, Which I Don't Consider Has A Lot To Do With Acting. They Only Think Of Stardom. If You Photograph Well, That's Enough. I Have A Terrible Time Distinguishing One From Another. Girls Wear Their Hair The Same, And Are Much Too Anorexic-looking.