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.
BETTE DAVISSome 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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