My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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