I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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’ve always liked men better than women.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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