You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVISThere 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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