Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVISYou know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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.
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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.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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