The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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