As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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