To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISThe only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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