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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVIS

Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Hollywood Party
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
BETTE DAVIS

Impossible Improvement Inspirational Motivational
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Death Funny Inspirational Marriage Money
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS

Death Gravestone Herself Way
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 DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Eyes Goodness Hairs Survive Yourself
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS

Funny Hairs Life Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Marriage Money Sex
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!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking

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