There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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