You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISI guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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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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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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