Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I work to stay alive.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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