If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISThe 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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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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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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As 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.
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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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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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