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I'm Crazy Enough To Believe In Taking Chances In Every Way, In Making Choices And Gambling With Your Life. That's The Kind Of Gambling I Believe In.

He Named Me. He Liked The Sound Of It. And I Said, Well, All Right. I Felt A Little Odd About It. I Don't Understand All That Name Changing Business Anyway... No, He Felt That Lauren Bacall Was Better Sounding Than Betty Bacall. He Had A Vision Of His Own. He Was A Svengali. He Wanted To Mold Me. He Wanted To Control Me. And He Did Until Mr. Bogart Got Involved.

I Have Made Mistakes In The Past And Been In Movies That Really Weren't Good, And That I Needed The Money At The Time, Or Something -- And The Money Wasn't Even That Great. But I Needed It, And... They Come Back On Television, Those Movies... To Haunt You. And It's A Nightmare!

When You Talk About A Great Actor, You're Not Talking About Tom Cruise. His Whole Behavior Is So Shocking. It's Inappropriate And Vulgar And Absolutely Unacceptable To Use Your Private Life To Sell Anything Commercially, But I Think It's Kind Of A Sickness.

I Like To Work With Really Good Professional People - Anyone With Real Talent.