I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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