You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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