Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVISYes, burn your bridges.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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