Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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