Bette Davis Quotes

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• She did it the hard way.
• Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
• Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve
• The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
• I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
• There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
• If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
• I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
• You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
• What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
• There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
• Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
• The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
• 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…
• Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
• I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
• Pray to God and say the lines.
• I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
• 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…

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