Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVISMother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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 was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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