The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Bette Davis/Martin Short (1988)
Bette Davis: Self
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Quotes
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Johnny Carson : Who's one of the worst people you know in Hollywood?
Bette Davis : That I worked with?
Johnny Carson : Or that you wouldn't want to work with again. If, you don't have to comment...
Bette Davis : One million dollars, Faye Dunaway.
[some nervous chuckles from audience]
Bette Davis : Everybody you can put in this chair will tell you exactly the same thing.
[audience laughs]
Johnny Carson : What is it about Ms. Dunaway that makes her...
Bette Davis : Well, she's just totally impossible.
Johnny Carson : Really.
Bette Davis : Yes. I don't think we have time to go into ALL the reasons.
[audience laughs]
Bette Davis : She's just, let's put it, she's just uncooperative.
Johnny Carson : She's not...
Bette Davis : Totally. Ms. Dunaway is for Ms. Dunaway. No, she truly, all seriously, is really, she's very unprofessional.
Johnny Carson : I see.
Bette Davis : Difficult woman.
Johnny Carson : Well you had a reputation at certain times of being kinda tough yourself.
Bette Davis : Oh no, I never had a reputation of THAT kind of thing. No no no.
Johnny Carson : Oh.
Bette Davis : I have never behaved in an unprofessional manner. That includes keeping actors waiting, keeping crews waiting, all those things. No. Never never never.
Johnny Carson : Well you are a true professional. That's for sure.
Bette Davis : Yes, that is really what she isn't.