Bette Davis on Joan Crawford:
“Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why [Joan Crawford] always plays ladies.”
“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
“[Crawford] has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.”
“[on the death of Joan Crawford] You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
Whitney Houston on Madonna:
"She's the high priestess of tack"
Joan Crawford
“[In The Women] Norma Shearer made me change my costume sixteen times because every one was prettier than hers. I love to play bitches, and she helped me in this part.”
“I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”
“I am just too much.”
“Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I’ve always drawn on myself only.”
On Marilyn Monroe:
“It was the most shocking display of bad taste I have ever seen. Look, there’s nothing wrong with my tits, but I don’t go around throwing them in people’s faces.”
On Liz Taylor:
“She is a spoiled, indulgent girl, a blemish on public decency.”
On Bette Davis in The Star:
“Of course I had heard she was supposed to be playing me, but I didn’t believe it. Did you see the picture? It couldn’t possibly be me. Bette looked so old, and so dreadfully overweight.”
Sterling Hayden on Joan Crawford:
“There’s is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.”
Vivian Leigh on Bette Davis after Leigh turned down a role in Hush … Hush Sweet Charlotte:
“I could just stand the thought of facing Joan Crawford at seven in the morning, but I couldn’t stand the thought of facing Bette Davis at that or any hour.”
Carole Lombard on Vivien Leigh:
“That f–king English bitch.”
Naomi Campbell to Tyra Banks:
"You'll never be me. Don't ever think you'll be me"
Joan Collins on Linda Evans:
"It's quite off putting to have to look at that face"
Tallulah Bankhead
“Cocaine isn’t habit forming. I should know — I’ve been using it for years.”
“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.”
“Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”
“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.”
“I’m as pure as the driven slush.”
“I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.”
“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
“I’ve had a man and I’ve had a woman, and there’s got to be something better.”
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.”
“The less I behave like Whistler’s mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”
“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
“There’s less here than meets the eye.”
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
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Monday, May 23, 2016
More Bitchy and Catty ... Goddess Knows I Love Bitchy and Catty
Monday, May 16, 2016
Bitchy and Catty? Sit By Me ....
Since I learned about ‘Feud’ last week — for anyone who missed it, it’s a new Ryan Murphy series about epic feuds, the first season being the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, I found some bitchy catty quotes from Bette and Joan and others.
Feel free to use any in impolite conversation …
Joan Crawford on Bette Davis:
"She has a cult, and what the hell is a cult except a gang of rebels without a cause. I have fans. There's a big difference."
Bette Davis on Joan Crawford:
"I wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire." "He needed willowy or boyish girls like Katharine Hepburn to make him look what they now call macho. If I'd costarred with Grant or if Crawford had, we'd have eaten him for breakfast."
Marlon Brando on James Dean :
"Mr. Dean appears to be wearing my last year's wardrobe and using my last year's talent."
John Gielgud on Ingrid Bergman:
"Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."
Talullah Bankhead about Bette Davis:
"When I get hold of her, I'll tear out every hair of her mustache!"
Talullah Bankhead to Tennessee Williams after seeing the film version of one of his plays:
"Darling, they've absolutlely ruined your perfectly dreadful play."
Madonna to Elton John:
"The easiest way for you to lose 10 pounds is just to take off your wig." "She looks like a fucking fairground stripper."
Noël Coward :
"I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere." "She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache." "He's completely unspoiled by failure."
Joe Orton:
"You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin."
Truman Capote about Jack Kerouac's On the Road:
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing." "I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats." "It was a good career move." "Tell me, is there anything you wish you hadn't eaten? "If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?"
Mary McCarthy, in a statement about Hellman in a 1979 interview on The Dick Cavett Show:
"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."This prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death. Later McCarthy said of the suit: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on."
Oscar Wilde:
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." "Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." "She is a peacock in everything but beauty."
Bitchy and catty are gifts ... I don't own them.
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