There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will never be below the title.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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