You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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 wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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