The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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