To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVISYou know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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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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