Bette Davis Quotes
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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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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It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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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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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Success only breeds a new goal.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.