I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVISIf men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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 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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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