"The old saw that time heals all wounds doesn't quite wash. Time helps-- it's the only thing that does; it helps you to go on, to live, to laugh, to love-- but it doesn't help you to forget or lessen the tiny stab of pain that remembrance brings."

"Memory is a precious commodity, not to be tampered with, not to be rejected. We have to be glad of its existence, for it keeps alive those special people-- the moments, the places, the feelings."

"Let's face it: I want it all-- just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try."

"What happens within a family is sacrosanct, must be protected and remain unknown to all outsiders."

"We all arrive at adulthood carrying baggage; the aim is not to carry too much."

"It isn't easy for me to face the fact that other people, even my friends, are much more interested in their own lives than they are in mine."

"I've spent a great deal of my life in a state of angst. Though I confess I have a feeling that angst is a natural state with me."

"It's women I admire more-- for character, honesty, daring, courage, curiosity, chance taking, general bravery about life-- but it's men who get the quick action."

"When a man speaks his mind it is accepted as charming, interesting, sexy, but when a woman speaks hers she is aggressive, unattractive, pushy-- some might even say a bitch."

"Overjoyed as I was to be Mrs. Bogart, I had no intention of allowing Miss Bacall to slide into oblivion."

"The truth is that I wanted it all-- all the time. And God knows I tried to have it. And God knows I almost did."

"Perhaps I'm the girl whom some Americans remember as having said a certain line in a certain picture."

"There is strength in being a new young face thrust into a group of people too used to one another."

"New York was real and California was not. 'Twas ever thus."

"It's been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It's not Bog-ey. He signed with an ie. And that's good enough for me." (on Humphrey Bogart)

"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"

"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."

"I am essentially a loner."

"Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy."

"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."

"I'm not the public."

 

Broadway

 

The Dakota