You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISSome 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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