I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
BETTE DAVISGay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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