The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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