I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISI was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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 best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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