Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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 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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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 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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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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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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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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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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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 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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Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.
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Success only breeds a new goal.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.