She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVISI was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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