I work to stay alive.
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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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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