My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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I will never be below the title.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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