Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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