If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVISHome is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I will never be below the title.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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