Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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.
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