Lauren Bacall Quotes

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.