A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISWith the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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 didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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