I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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