"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ‘content.’" ― Lauren Bacall Topic(s): Dreams More From Lauren Bacall "I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all." "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." "Patience was not my strong point." More In Dreams "It’s not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU."― Christine Taylor "One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth."― Picabo Street "Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."― Khalil Gibran