To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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 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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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