I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISMy passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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