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.
BETTE DAVISI’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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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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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 never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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