One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVISYour luck is how you treat people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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Mother 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.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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