I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
BETTE DAVISAlmost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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