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

Bette Davis

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVIS

Certain Ecstasy Happiness Human Nature Philosophy
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
BETTE DAVIS

Action Death Myself
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS

Mean Trust White Wine
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Home Yourself
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Look Movie
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
BETTE DAVIS

Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
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 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
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
BETTE DAVIS

Men Myself Woman
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
BETTE DAVIS

Fashion Legs Make Up Myself
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success

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