Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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