I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISI was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I’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.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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