Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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