Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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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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Your luck is how you treat people.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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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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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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