I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
BETTE DAVISIf Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I will never be below the title.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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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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