Bette Davis Quotes
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She did it the hard way.
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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 wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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'In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
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Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
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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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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.
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You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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She's the original good time who was had by all.
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve.