There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVISI think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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 work to stay alive.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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 have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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