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.
BETTE DAVISIf men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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I will never be below the title.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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