"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
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Bette Davis quotes (page 5 of 8)
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
"She did it the hard way."
"I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again."
"I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director."
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."
"I've lost my faith in science."
"I've always liked men better than women."
"I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling."
"There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get."
"I survived because I was tougher than anybody else."
"Success only breeds a new goal"
"She's the original good time who was had by all."
"Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion."
"I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!"
"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."
"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."
"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
"Strong women only marry weak men."
"Pray to God and say the lines."