Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I work to stay alive.
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