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.
BETTE DAVISIt’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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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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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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