You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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