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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

Bette Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVIS

Expectations Happiness
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVIS

Man Reality Woman
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
BETTE DAVIS

Lucky Myself
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVIS

Adventure Cheat Funny Love Marriage
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Enemy Myself Regret
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Herself Opinion Women
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVIS

Believe Children Myself Parents
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Art Artist Himself Human
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!
BETTE DAVIS

Dog Thinking Travel Yourself

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