The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVISYou mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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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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