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 DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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