It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVISActing should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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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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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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