The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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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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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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