If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISI’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.
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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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