Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVISAt 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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