I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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