I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISYou know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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