Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISFasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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