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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.


Bette Midler

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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