There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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