I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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