The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISEvil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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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 will never be below the title.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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