You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVISMen 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I work to stay alive.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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