She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVISMen 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I work to stay alive.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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 think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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 didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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