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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!

Bette Davis

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Stars Yourself
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Title Worth
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS

Faith Lost Science

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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