Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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 will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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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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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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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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