I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVISShe’s the original good time who was had by all.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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