One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISEvil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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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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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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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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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 think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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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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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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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger 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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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