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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.

Bette Davis

The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
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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Art Baby Entertainment
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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Attractive Men Old Woman
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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End Fame Ourselves Stars
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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Boy Interest Myself See Woman
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Character Myself
Pray to God and say the lines.
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God Prayer
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Right Yourself
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Eyes Goodness Hairs Survive Yourself
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Men Myself Woman
I will never be below the title.
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Confidence Myself Title Worth
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Men Thinking Woman
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Goodness Time Women
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I Miss You Missing Pain True
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
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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Goodness Hero Old People
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
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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Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Children Hate Parents Yourself
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
Strong women only marry weak men.
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Man Strong Weakness Women
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself

You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.

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