I’ve lost my faith in science.
BETTE DAVISYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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