Yes, burn your bridges.
BETTE DAVISI will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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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.
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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 firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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