You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISThe only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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