Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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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.
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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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