Bette Davis Quotes
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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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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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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I work to stay alive.
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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've lost my faith in science.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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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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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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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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I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.
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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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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.