My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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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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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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