I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISI wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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