I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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