You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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Success only breeds a new goal
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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