With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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 often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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