Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISThe key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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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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