I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I will never be below the title.
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