If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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