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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
Bette DavisBette Davis I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
Bette DavisBette Davis Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
Bette DavisBette Davis I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
Bette DavisBette Davis A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette DavisBette Davis One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
Bette DavisBette Davis You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
Bette DavisBette Davis If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
Bette DavisBette Davis Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette DavisBette Davis If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
Bette DavisBette Davis You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
Bette DavisBette Davis Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette DavisBette Davis I’ve always liked men better than women.
Bette DavisBette Davis You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Bette DavisBette Davis Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis
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