You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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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 do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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