In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISBeing called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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