To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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.
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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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