You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISBeing called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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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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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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 was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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