At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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