You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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I work to stay alive.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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