Yes, burn your bridges.
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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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.
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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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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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