Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISIt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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