I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISPlaying 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I 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.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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