I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
BETTE DAVISIt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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 often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I work to stay alive.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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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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To 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.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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