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 DAVISIf you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I will never be below the title.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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