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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Bette Davis

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVIS

Night Yourself
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Future Life Past
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure Success
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Act Big Life
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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Art Baby Entertainment
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Men Myself Woman
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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Death Funny Inspirational Marriage Money
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Relax
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Hollywood Important Legs
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Commitment Humanity Love Religion
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Missing Moments Sailing
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Difficult Success

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