All Bette Davis Quotes
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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.
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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.
Bette Davis
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I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis
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