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.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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