"I could just about stand being in a southern plantation at 5 A.M. with Miss Crawford. But never Miss Davis!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academy Award winnersEpiscopalians from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesActresses from Massachusetts
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
, in a telegram declining Robert Aldrich's offer to replace an ailing Joan Crawford in ' (1964), as quoted, circa 1980, by , speaking with James Bawden; reproduced in Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 208
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bette_Davis
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and h…"
"'In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You wa…"
"The act of sex, gratifying though it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superinte…"
"That picture clinched my future as far as Universal was concerned. They felt that as I had not emerged as a glamour g…"
"What a dump."
"To look back is to relax one's vigil."
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
"I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life."
"I think it was that picture, more than anything else, that gave me a horror of nobility. Ever since then I have fough…"
"I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived."