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I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
— Henry Fonda
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
— Bette Davis
She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.
— Bette Lee Crosby
Pray to God and say the lines.
— Bette Davis
You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
— Bette Davis
Getting old is not for sissies.
— Bette Davis
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
— Bette Midler
I've always liked men better than women.
— Bette Davis
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
— Bette Midler
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
— Bette Davis
I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.
— Bette Lee Crosby
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
— Bette Davis
I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
— Bette Midler
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
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
— Bette Davis
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good ... Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
— Bette Davis
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
— Bette Greene
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
— Bette Davis
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
— Bette Davis
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?
— Bette Lee Crosby
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
— Bette Davis
Old age ain't for sissies
— Bette Davis
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
— Bette Midler
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
— Mario Cantone
And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.
— Bette Greene
Longevity can't be the only test of love.
— Bette Greene
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces - spaces you know can't ever be filled.
— Bette Greene
I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
— Bette Midler
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
— Bette Davis
If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.
— Bette Midler
Total contentment is only for cows.
— Bette Midler
Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous
— Bette A. Stevens
But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?
— Bette Greene
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."
— Frank Langella
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
— Bette Davis
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
— Bette Davis
I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
— Bette Midler
I sold my soul to rock and roll.
— Bette Midler
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
— Bette Davis
Getting old isn't for sissies.
— Bette Davis
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
— Bette Midler
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
— Rebecca Hall
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
— Bette Davis
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
— Bette Davis
Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.
— Bette Lee Crosby
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.
— Bette Midler
To give a lot when you have a lot is easy; but to give a lot when you have so little is indeed a gift of love.
— Bette Lee Crosby
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
— Richard LaGravenese
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
— Bette Midler
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
— Bette Lord
Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
— Bette Midler
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
— Bette Midler
I will never be below the title.
— Bette Davis
A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
— Vesta Williams
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
— Bette Davis
If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
— Bette Midler
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
— Bette Davis
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
— Bette Midler
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
— Bette Davis
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
— Bette Davis
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
— Bette Midler
I'm working my way toward divinity.
— Bette Midler
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
— Claudette Colbert
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
— Bette Midler
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
— Bette Davis
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
— Bette Davis