Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
BETTE DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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