The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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