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.
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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Success only breeds a new goal
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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 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.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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