There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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