You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
BETTE DAVISBasically, 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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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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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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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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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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