You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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