You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVISYou can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
More Bette Davis Quotes
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I 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.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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