I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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