I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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