Bette Davis quotes - page 4

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. (Bette Davis)
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies. View quote
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She's the original good time that was had by all. View quote
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din. View quote
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. View quote
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She did it the hard way. View quote
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I never wished I'd been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration. View quote
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Miss Bankhead isn't well enough known nationally to warrant my imitating her. View quote
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That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers. (Bette Davis)
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. View quote
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. View quote
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At 50, I thought proudly Here we are, half century Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. View quote
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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. View quote
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That picture clinched my future as far as Universal was concerned. They felt that as I had not emerged as a glamour girl after being worked over by John Stahl, I had no possibilities. When I arrived in Hollywood, when I thought about it all, I considered myself as normally attractive; after that year at Universal I found that I was apologizing for living. Physically I considered myself as one to be avoided. I still cringe at the beating I took. View quote
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Then I did Three on a Match-at the end director Mervyn Leroy boldly predicted Ann Dvorak would be a big hit, I'd have a solid career and Bette Davis would go nowhere. Bette hasn't spoken to him since. View quote
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She has about as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville. View quote
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