Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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