Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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