If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I work to stay alive.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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