With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISThe 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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It’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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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