Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISI want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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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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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 was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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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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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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