I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVISI would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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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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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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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.
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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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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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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