Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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