If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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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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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.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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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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