We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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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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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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 know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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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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