In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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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.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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