The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISAt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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