There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVISActing should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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