Lauren Bacall Quotes

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

I look at the past and I see myself.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

I don't live in the past.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.