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Bette Davis

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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Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
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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Attractive Men Old Woman
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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Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
Getting old is not for sissies.
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Age Old
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Enemy Fire Hate Help
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVIS

Intelligent Marriage Men
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
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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Space Thinking War
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
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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Hollywood Important Legs
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Marriage Money Sex
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Actors Artist Difference

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