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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Bette Davis

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
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 DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS

Funny Hairs Life Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie

I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

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