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.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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