I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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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.
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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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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I work to stay alive.
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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.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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