I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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 only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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