Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISWomen are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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 work to stay alive.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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It 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.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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