If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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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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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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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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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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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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