You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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