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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.

Bette Davis

I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
BETTE DAVIS

Art Baby Entertainment
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS

Bored Friendship Tears
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVIS

Death Gravestone Herself Way
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVIS

Future Life Past
I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS

Faith Lost Science
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Artist Himself Human
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Stars Yourself
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVIS

Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVIS

Intelligent Marriage Men

Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.

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