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.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Mother 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.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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 guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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