Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVISPlaying our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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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.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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