Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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