I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVISWithout wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I will never be below the title.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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