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.
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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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