Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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I work to stay alive.
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I will never be below the title.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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