You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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 will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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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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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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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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I will never be below the title.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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 work to stay alive.
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