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.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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