Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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