Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISAs 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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 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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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