We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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 have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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 wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will never be below the title.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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