Lauren Bacall

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

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

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.