You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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 am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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