The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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 never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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