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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

Bette Davis

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS

Fame Myself Talk
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVIS

Eat Food Forget Yourself
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
Strong women only marry weak men.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Strong Weakness Women
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself

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