The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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