Bette Davis on business
Bette Davis119 quotes“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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette DavisBette Davis If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
Bette DavisBette Davis You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
Bette DavisBette Davis Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette DavisBette Davis I’ve always liked men better than women.
Bette DavisBette Davis You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Bette DavisBette Davis Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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 DavisBette Davis I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
Bette DavisBette Davis I work to stay alive.
Bette DavisBette Davis I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette DavisBette Davis Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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 DavisBette Davis It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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