Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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 work to stay alive.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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At 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.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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