I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVISI never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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 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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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I work to stay alive.
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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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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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 guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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 act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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