If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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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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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your 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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