I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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