You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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