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.
BETTE DAVISThe best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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