I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVISPlaying our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I will never be below the title.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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