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.
BETTE DAVISIt’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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 Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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