I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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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.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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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.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will never be below the title.
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