Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVISThere comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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 am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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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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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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.
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