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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.

Bette Davis

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVIS

Breakup I Miss You Love
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Movie Stars
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
BETTE DAVIS

End Fame Ourselves Stars

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 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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