Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I work to stay alive.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t 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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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