There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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