I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVISEvil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Some 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.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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