Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
BETTE DAVISTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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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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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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