I work to stay alive.
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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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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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 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.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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Playing 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.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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