I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISAt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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