There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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