Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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