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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.

Bette Davis

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.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Mom Phone Year
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Lose Talent Yourself
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Achievement End Forever Goal Myself Success
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Time Women
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Stage Actors Wonderful
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Home World
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself

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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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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