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.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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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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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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