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.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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