Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISOne 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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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 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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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