You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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