Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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