Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISI’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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To 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.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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