Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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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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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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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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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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