I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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I will never be below the title.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I work to stay alive.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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