I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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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.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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