I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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