For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
Lauren BacallRead
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
Interpretation
This quote signifies the transformative impact that one person can have on another's life.
In this quote, Lauren Bacall acknowledges the significant influence that Howard Hawks had on her life and career. It emphasizes the importance of mentorship and the profound changes that can occur when someone inspires or supports you in pursuing your passion.
In practice
During a speech at a film festival, one might quote Bacall to highlight the importance of mentorship in the film industry.
For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.
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.
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!
I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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