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 DAVISThe secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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