Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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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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