Bette Davis Quotes

• If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Parents, Miscellaneous

• Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.

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  Tags in Ask, Moon

• We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Ourselves, Fame, Stars, Knows

• Strong women only marry weak men.

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  Tags in Weak, Strong, Marry

• 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

  Topics in Money, Wedding

  Tags in Marriage

• An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.

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  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Athlete, Affair, Boring, Marriage

• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

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  Tags in Professional, Enemies, Regret

• I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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  Tags in Hair, Just

• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.

  Bette Davis

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  Tags in Acting and Actors, Weep, Remember

• In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent!

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  Tags in Guilty, Proved, Innocent

• Old age is no place for sissies.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Sissies, Old, Place

• That’s me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

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  Tags in Athlete, Some

• With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.

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  Tags in Strike

• I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

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  Tags in Athlete, Pal, Tears

• To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

  Bette Davis

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  Tags in Athlete, Vigil, Relax, Perseverance

• I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Went

• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expense, Want, Found

• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bed, Satin, Packs, Shoulder

• I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Retirement, Athlete, Music

• 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.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Famous

Bette Davis (69)

Birth:	5th April, 1908
Death:	6th October, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.

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• 1967 - Miranda Otto
• 1981 - Krysten Ritter
• 1928 - Philip K. Dick
• 1917 - Murray Kempton
• 1941 - Lesley Stahl

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• 1998 - William Gaddis
• 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli
• 2009 - Roy E. Disney
• 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham
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