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Inspirational Quotes by Bette Davis
- She did it the hard way.
- Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve
- 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.
- 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.
- There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
- 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.
- You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
- Yes, burn your bridges.
- Your luck is how you treat people.
- I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
- I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
- It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
- I work to stay alive.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- 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…
- The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
- Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
- 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…
- Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
- I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento