One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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 wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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