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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.

Bette Davis

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS

Hell One Way Way
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVIS

Courage Material Self Confidence
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVIS

Enemy Fire Hate Help
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVIS

Eat Food Forget Yourself
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVIS

Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVIS

Bridges One Liner Relationship Yourself
I’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Time Women
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS

Negative Order Thinking

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 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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