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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS

Courage Material Self Confidence
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
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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Family Hollywood Myself Young
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Children Hate Parents Yourself
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
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!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
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 DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex

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