I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS
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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.
Bette DavisBette Davis I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
Bette DavisBette Davis I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
Bette DavisBette Davis Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette DavisBette Davis In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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 DavisBette Davis I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette DavisBette Davis One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette DavisBette Davis You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette DavisBette Davis To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
Bette DavisBette Davis If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.
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