I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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