I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
BETTE DAVISYou can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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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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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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 will never be below the title.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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