The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
BETTE DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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I will never be below the title.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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.
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