A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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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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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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