Bette Davis Quotes

• Strong women only marry weak men.

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  Tags in Weak, Strong, Marry

• Sex is God’s joke on human beings.

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  Tags in Joke, Sex

• 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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  Tags in Psychoanalysis, Athlete, Actor

• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Pretend, Actress

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

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  Tags in Ask, Moon

• 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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  Tags in Older, Men And Women

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Ability, Love

  Tags in Pliable, Romance

• 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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  Tags in Studio, Tough

• Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Jest, Athlete

• It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

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  Tags in Last, Wish

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

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  Tags in Guilty, Proved, Innocent

• In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

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  Tags in Athlete

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

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  Tags in Athlete, Parents, Miscellaneous

• I’ve lost my faith in science.

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  Tags in Athlete, Lost

• I’ve always liked men better than women.

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  Tags in Athlete, Liked, Women

• I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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  Tags in Athlete, Nicest, Dame

• I work to stay alive.

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  Tags in Alive

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

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  Tags in Retirement, Athlete, Music

• I will never be below the title.

  Bette Davis

  Tags in Athlete

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

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  Tags in Went

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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• 1945 - David Pleat
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• 1947 - Pete Waterman

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• 1982 - Red Smith
• 2004 - Olivia Goldsmith
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• 1983 - Meyer Lansky
• 1993 - Sammy Cahn