I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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