Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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 best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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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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Yes, burn your bridges.
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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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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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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 survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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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