The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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.
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I work to stay alive.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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