Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVISI’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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