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.
BETTE DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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