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 DAVISIt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I work to stay alive.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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