My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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I will never be below the title.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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