I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISI often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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