My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISThere may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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 wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I will never be below the title.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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