I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISI’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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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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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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