You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISThe real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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