Pray to God and say the lines.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Women 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.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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