Bette Davis
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“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.” -Bette Davis
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“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.” -Bette Davis
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“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.” -Bette Davis
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“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
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“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.” -Bette Davis
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“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.” -Bette Davis
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“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.” -Bette Davis
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“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.” -Bette Davis
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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 meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” -Bette Davis
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“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.” -Bette Davis
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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 child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.” -Bette Davis
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“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” -Bette Davis
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“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.” -Bette Davis
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“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.” -Bette Davis
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“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.” -Bette Davis
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“In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.” -Bette Davis
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“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
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