Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISDramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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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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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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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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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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