Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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