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.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I will never be below the title.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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