Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVISThe best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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