You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVISI often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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