Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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