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.
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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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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