I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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