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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!

Bette Davis

I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War
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
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
BETTE DAVIS

Acting Hollywood Party
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
BETTE DAVIS

Eyes Goodness Hairs Survive Yourself
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Beginning Cake Old Time
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVIS

Director Fire Goodness Herself Myself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Achievement End Forever Goal Myself Success
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
BETTE DAVIS

Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Alone Independent Man Sex
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
BETTE DAVIS

Movie Reason
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS

Alcohol Drink Life Time Woman
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
BETTE DAVIS

Born Children Men Sex
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Artist Difference
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young

You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!

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