I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVISIt’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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