Quotes by
Bette Davis |
1908-1989 , American actress
A two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. She was willing 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.
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Quotations
| • | She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie. (on rival Joan Crawfor) 12 |
| • | Sex is God's joke on human beings. 10 |
| • | Getting old is not for sissies. 6 |
| • | Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. 5 |
| • | Everybody has a heart. Except some people. 5 |
| • | There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. 4 |
| • | The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. 4 |
| • | An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know. 3 |
| • | You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good... Joan Crawford is dead. Good. 3 |
| • | If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. 3 |
| • | I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box. 3 |
| • | Strong women only marry weak men. 3 |
| • | 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 within a year. 2 |
| • | I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire. 2 |
| • | When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. 2 |
| • | If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. 2 |
| • | I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and off-times disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life. 2 |
