I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVISMother 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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 way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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 know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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