You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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 would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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