I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISI wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I work to stay alive.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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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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