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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.
Bette Davis -
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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 went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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.
Bette Davis
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I work to stay alive.
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There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis
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I've always liked men better than women.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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On gay men: Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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Success only breeds a new goal.
Bette Davis
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette Davis