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Bette Midler

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I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra h...
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I am pretty weird - as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and S...
LILLY SINGH
If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or...
ROBIN LEACH
Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the...
BRYAN BATT
Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
RUTH NEGGA
In the first half of last year, you had a lot of the big tours early - Madonna, Prince, Bette Midler...
RAY WADDELL
Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspi...
SCOTT BAKULA
By 1976, I was, like, Gonesville. I practically lived at the Troubador for several years. When Bette...
EVE BABITZ
The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
BETTE MIDLER
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
BETTE MIDLER
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone w...
BETTE MIDLER
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLER
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'l...
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequi...
BETTE MIDLER
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll ...
BETTE MIDLER
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept of...
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's ...
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Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only...
BETTE MIDLER
The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like...
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A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.
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After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
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[(CNN) -- One of several emotional high points in Sunday's] Prayer for America ... Wind Beneath My W...
BETTE MIDLER
As Time Goes By.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it
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If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll...
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a ...
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I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.
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Is That All There Is,
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I...
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyo...
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard wo...
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty thi...
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easi...
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped m...
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm c...
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My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my home...
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someon...
JANE GREEN
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and f...
JESSICA ENNIS
Talking with someone I like is my idea of fun.
MARTY RUBIN
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I want someone to love me for me, faults and all.
Someone who cant fall asleep without being he...
JOSé N. HARRIS
I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of th...
DARLENE LOVE
I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of th...
DARLENE LOVE
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own se...
FERNANDO PESSOA
As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s...
RICHARD CORLISS
I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someo...
YUVRAJ SINGH
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
PATTI LABELLE
I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on f...
RYAN LOCHTE
Therefore there is absolutely no Christian acknowledgement of the 21st Century human idea that it's ...
DON HORROCKS
My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG
is someone who can own the screen for a few minutes, someone who brings this extraordinary authority...
DONALD SUTHERLAND
I know who I am supposed to be with. I'm just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I...
AMANDA BYNES
I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air... ...
CHERIE BLAIR
I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.
MEGAN FOX
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
OPRAH WINFREY
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
MYRTLE BARKER
And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of th...
CASSANDRA CLARE
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clea...
PAULO COELHO
B-b-but who will I have cleaning marathons with?”

“Casey. I’ll be there in spirit.�...
RACHAEL WADE
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
SUSIE BRIGHT
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
ROBERT BURNS

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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's ...
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Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only...
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Zealots are rarely ever weakened by disbelievers; in fact, they are encouraged by them.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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I am just too much.
BETTE DAVIS
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the...
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a chi...
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and s...
BETTE DAVIS
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the...
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, an...
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bott...
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for last...
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
BETTE DAVIS
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ...
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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacl...
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression...
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...
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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
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I was never the girl next door.
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BETTE DAVIS
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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BETTE DAVIS
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I will never be below the title.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces...
BETTE DAVIS
[when told not to speak ill of the dead] 'Just because someone is dead does not mean they have chang...
BETTE DAVIS
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? "She did it the hard way."
BETTE DAVIS
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho...
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BETTE DAVIS
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS
Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVIS
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
BETTE DAVIS
We're looking at a consolidation with U.S. Steel as leader, with four or five different steel compan...
BETTE KOVACH
It absorbs faster than cotton.
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When they transplant a heart, they cut the nerves. The pains must have been caused by his heart hitt...
BETTE SANDERSON
It costs more to die than to be born. You'd think it would be the other way around.
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The total sold is not serious. It can be absorbed, but the perception that other banks may sell and ...
BETTE RAPTOPOULOS
The market's going to go lower. Ultimately it will stabilize and then we can begin to see some sort ...
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I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to...
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I told her, as long as you're safe, that's the main thing. The rest is just stuff.
BETTE LASKY
Looking at local news down there, it's hard to know what's going on.
BETTE LASKY
It's worrisome, obviously. We've had some anxious days.
BETTE LASKY
Homer Labs was regarded as the finest steelmaking research and development facility in terms of cali...
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We know employees value the company match, and it's been a mainstay of our program, but we needed to...
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I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of you...
BETTE DAVIS
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experi...
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
BETTE DAVIS
It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.
BETTE DAVIS
My darling,it is late and I am very tired of youth,love,and self-sacrafice.
BETTE DAVIS
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex ...
BETTE DAVIS
I've lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVIS
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to kn...
BETTE DAVIS
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see ...
BETTE DAVIS
She is the original good time that was had by all.
BETTE DAVIS
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they ...
BETTE DAVIS
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ough...
BETTE DAVIS
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
BETTE DAVIS
We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?
BETTE DAVIS
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes dis...
BETTE DAVIS
I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
BETTE DAVIS
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS
I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but s...
BETTE PAGE
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex t...
BETTE DAVIS
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all...
BETTE DAVIS
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS
I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd...
BETTE DAVIS
If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you...
BETTE DAVIS
Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've take...
BETTE DAVIS
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than ...
BETTE DAVIS
"Oh, I'm rather fond of him that way. It shows that deep down he's a fake." -on her graying 1935 Osc...
BETTE DAVIS
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We nev...
BETTE DAVIS
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was prob...
BETTE DAVIS