If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVISA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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 key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I will never be below the title.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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