Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I will never be below the title.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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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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