I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISI was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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 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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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