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.
BETTE DAVISYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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