Lauren Bacall movie quotes

35 quotes from 4 movies

The Big Sleep (1946) as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge

View Quote [to Marlowe, on the phone] You can stop worrying and call off the bloodhounds. We found Sean....he's been in Mexico. He hasn't been very well...an accident of some kind. We didn't get all the details. I'm leaving at once to meet him...We haven't told him [the General] yet. We thought it best to wait.

View Quote Marlowe, you're ruining everything, yes you are.

View Quote Marlowe: All right, now that's settled. What's Eddie Mars got on you?
Vivian: So that's the way...
Marlowe: That's the way it is. Kissing is all right. It's nice. I'd like to do more of it. First, I want to find out what Eddie Mars has on you.

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Written on the Wind (1956) as Lucy Moore Hadley

View Quote [to Kyle] I took a sudden dislike to the suite...Oh, it was beautiful at first glance. Then I thought how ugly it would be - in the morning.

View Quote [to Jasper] I know all about his anxieties and fears. You can forget about the pistol. Kyle threw it in the ocean.

View Quote Lucy: [To Mitch] Just what do you do for the Hadley Oil Company?
Kyle: [interrupting] We're troubleshooters. Wherever they want trouble, they send for us.
Mitch: I, uh, have a sheepskin that says I'm a geologist.
Kyle: ...I was kicked out of the same school. They found rocks in my head.

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Dark Passage (1947) as Irene Jansen

View Quote Irene Jansen: I thought I had a good life here... but your going away doesn't make it seem good anymore. I've sort of joined your team and... and I don't look forward to being without you.
Vincent Parry: When I leave here, you're off my team, and lucky to be. Nah, I've got the Indian sign on me. It seems I can't win.

View Quote Vincent Parry: Don't you get lonely up here by yourself?
Irene Jansen: I was born lonely, I guess.

View Quote Irene Jansen: You won't tell me cause you think I'll come there. You think I'd follow you.
Vincent Parry: You'd be insane to follow me.
Irene Jansen: Was I insane to pick you up on the road? Was I crazy to let you stay here?
Vincent Parry: Yes.

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Key Largo (1948) as Nora Temple

View Quote Charlie! Charlie Winook and his family, Crawfish Island. Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore.