I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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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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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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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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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 you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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