I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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