It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVISI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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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 may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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