One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVISIt’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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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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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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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