You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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