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.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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.
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