You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVISGay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISYou know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVISI’ve always liked men better than women.
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.
BETTE DAVISBeing called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVISIf you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVISMother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
BETTE DAVISSuccess is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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