Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVISSuccess only breeds a new goal
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your 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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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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