Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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