I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
BETTE DAVISAttempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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