What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISThe out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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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 true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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