I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
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 didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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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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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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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I work to stay alive.
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