I will never be below the title.
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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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