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.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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