I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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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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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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I will never be below the title.
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