In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
BETTE DAVIS