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.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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