The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVISThere 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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