Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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.
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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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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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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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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.
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It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.