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.
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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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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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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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I will never be below the title.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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