You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I will never be below the title.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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