Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISNever, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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 have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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