With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISBasically, 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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