The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Quote by Bette Davis

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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you...

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you...

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare...

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare...

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

I work to stay alive.

I work to stay alive.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a...

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a...

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.