I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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