The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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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Mother 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.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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