Bette Davis Quotes

• She’s the original good time who was had by all.

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• I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

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• Evil people…you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress—never to be forgotten.

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

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• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.

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  Tags in Lifetime, Pain, Pleasure, Moment

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

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  Tags in Wonder, Actors And Acting, Trade

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

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  Tags in Strike

• 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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  Tags in Athlete, Maybe

• When a man gives his opinion he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion she’s a bitch.

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  Tags in Athlete, Misogyny, Women, Opinions

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Athlete, Durable, Romance

• Today everyone is a star – they’re all billed as ‘starring’ or ‘also starring’. In my day, we earned that recognition.

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  Topics in Appreciation

  Tags in Athlete, Starring, Recognition

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

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  Tags in Athlete, Vigil, Relax, Perseverance

• 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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  Topics in Inspirational, Money, Work

  Tags in Gravy

• This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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  Tags in Motto, Possibilities, Athlete, Mine

• 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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  Tags in Words, Athlete, Credulity, Hiss, Slick

• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

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  Tags in Reason

• The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.

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  Topics in Challenge, Life

  Tags in Self-Confidence, Key, Accepting, Courage

• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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  Tags in Athlete, Crawford, Pushed, Happened

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

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  Tags in Athlete, Some

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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