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

Bette Davis

The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
BETTE DAVIS

Space Thinking War
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVIS

Night Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Artist Himself Human
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
BETTE DAVIS

Right Yourself
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVIS

Funny Hairs Life Myself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Goodness Hero Old People
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVIS

Intelligent Marriage Men

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

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