Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
BETTE DAVISYou know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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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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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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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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