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.
BETTE DAVISThere was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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