I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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