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.
BETTE DAVISI never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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 survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I work to stay alive.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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