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.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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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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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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 want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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