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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.

Bette Davis

I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Hollywood Party
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
BETTE DAVIS

Achievement End Forever Goal Myself Success
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
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
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Secret
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS

Death Gravestone Herself Way
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspiration Memories
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

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

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS

Mean Trust White Wine
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

Breakup I Miss You Love
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
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

Boy Interest Myself See Woman
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
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
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Artist Himself Human
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
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
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself

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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