I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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