What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISIf everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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