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.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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 firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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