There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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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.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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