She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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