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.
BETTE DAVISTo look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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