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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

I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
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
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Funny Inspirational Marriage Money
Men 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.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS

Hell One Way Way
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVIS

Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS

Evil Forget People Yourself

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.

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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.

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