I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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 work to stay alive.
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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.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Men 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.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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