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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis -
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.
Bette Davis
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve.
Bette Davis -
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis -
I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis -
Yes, burn your bridges.
Bette Davis -
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!
Bette Davis -
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.
Bette Davis
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Bette Davis -
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis -
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette Davis -
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
Bette Davis
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
Bette Davis -
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis -
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
Bette Davis
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It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis -
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis -
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
Bette Davis