Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISGood actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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