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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Opportunity Reward Winning
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Couple
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Necessary Thinking Writing
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVIS

Alive Myself
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS

Bored Friendship Tears
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate People Worth Yourself
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars

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