The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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