FEUD: Bette and Joan
Sundays 10:00 PM on FXFEUD: Bette and Joan Quotes
You're jealous because men don't look at you anymore and they look at me. You can't take it that your turn is over and you're blaming me. What a joke.
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You know what those women had that you don't, mother? Dignity. They moved aside with class after their spin on the carousel was over and that's something you've refused to do. And now look at you. You're single, lonely and doing this ridiculous role because you can't live without being in the spotlight. Well, guess what? Nobody wants you anymore. Nobody's watching you anymore.
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Hedda: Dateline Los Angeles: Stars of the night sky tend to keep to fixed orbits and never interfere with one another. Seems things sometimes operate that way in Hollywood, too. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, stars of equal magnitude who ruled in motion pictures in the fabulous '30s, never got to know one another. Now, in the Indian Summer of their careers, they're about to.
Bob: She just wanted better parts, Jack, a say in her own destiny.
Bette: OK. Fine, but because of her own selfishness and bullheadedness, the entire studio contract system came crashing down! The whole thing! Because of her! She's the one who put the crack in the levy, and you want me to work with her again?! Are you f*cking crazy?? Never!! Never Again!! Never!! That f*cking c*nt!!! Her unemployment is my long-simmering revenge.
You're too big for Broadway, Bette. Come back to Hollywood where you belong.
Bob
Bette: It's all cyclical. It will come back in fashion.
Joan: But we won't. If something's going to happen, we have to make it happen. No one's looking to cast women our age. But together, they wouldn't dare say no. We need each other, Bette.
Bette: So what the hell happened to her anyway, Baby Jane.
Joan: Read it. Find out. [pause] Oh, and I'm offering to you the title role.
Bette: The lead?
Joan: You can call it that.
Joan: Guess what, Bette, I have finally found the perfect project for the two of us. It's always been my dream to work with you. Do you remember how I begged Jack Warner to put us together in Ethan Frome?
Bette: With Mr. Gary Gooper.
Joan: You do remember.
Bette: You wanted to play the pretty young servant girl and I was to play the hag of a wife. Forget it.
Joan: But this is different. These are the parts of a lifetime.
Bette: No thanks, Lucille, I've got plenty of better offers.
Joan [chuckles]: Bullshit. I know what kind of offers you're getting, exactly none because the same is true for me. They're not making women's pictures anymore, at least not the kind we used to make.
Joan: Marty, I am an actress. I want to act. I am at the top of my game right now.
Marty: Then you're going to have to find the part yourself because the roles just aren't out there.
Feuds are never about hate. Feuds are about pain. They're about pain.
Olivia
Bob: You're gonna make my picture, Jack.
Jack: I'm sorry?
Bob: You're gonna make it. You need it. Television is kicking your ass, and the movies you're making? They're all bombs.
When Betty had to choose, she always chose the professional over the private.
Joan Blondell
Joan's Beau: You admire her.
Joan: I admire her talent and her craft, and I will have her respect, even if I have to kill both of us to get it.
