I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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.
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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.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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