Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISWe movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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 have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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